Appendix: Yemeni Government Summary of Repatriation Plan

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Summary of Information on the Program for Rehabilitating and Training Yemeni Detainees at Guantanamo[134]

The group of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo includes members who have spent more than six years in prison. During this long period of time, they were subjected to physical and psychological suffering due to harsh conditions of detention. As a result of the practices they experienced and the desire to reintegrate the detainees into the fabric of Yemeni society, the Republic of Yemen has prepared a program for the detainees' rehabilitation.

The program intends to establish a center for the rehabilitation of prisoners, taking into account their different levels of education. The center will work on rectifying their behavior in line with the tolerant teachings of Islam and will urge them to accept the concepts of good citizenship, tolerance, and coexistence with others, as a way to challenge destructive, terrorist ideas. Other objectives of the center include:

• Rehabilitating residents religiously, culturally, vocationally, and medically, using both scientific and practical approaches.
• Integrating detainees into society by providing programs and specialized training courses.
• Promoting the principle of community acceptance of detainees whose behaviour has been rectified and providing them with the opportunity to meet their family members.
• Rehabilitating associates of the center and teaching them craftsmanship during their enrolment in order to achieve two goals: the first aim is to occupy them while they are at the center; the second aim is to help them find a job after their release to ensure a decent life and prevent them from returning to their life before imprisonment.

The organizational structure of the center, in addition to its administrative branch, will consist of several sections, including Reception, the Department of Social and Health Rehabilitation, the Department of Religious and Educational Rehabilitation, the Training Division, and the Follow-Up Division.

The function of the Department of Social and Health Rehabilitation will be to identify the social status of members and their overall family conditions, in order to analyze and determine their social circumstances and the causes that contributed to their joining terrorist groups. The department will also provide specialists for inmates' health care.

The functions of the Department of Educational and Religious Rehabilitation will include preparing the center's weekly programs, preparing awareness raising, educational and religious materials, and supervising lectures that aim to refute religious extremism and deepen the knowledge of inmates about the teachings of Islam that reject extremism.

The center's program will include sports and cultural and religious activities, in addition to vocational training in typing and computer skills, carpentry, blacksmithing, woodworking, and other trades.