Local Group Helps Release Guantanamo Detainee

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By Liz Bulkley on Wednesday, October 4, 2006.
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The Seacoast Chapter of Amnesty International played a role in the recent release of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Murat Kurnaz. The Turkish national was labeled an enemy combatant after he was captured in Pakistan in 2001. He was held by the U.S. for six years until he was released five weeks ago. We'll find how New Hampshire activists helped get him free.

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