A man who was a Guantanamo prisoner for eight years wants to return to his cell at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba, it was reported Saturday.
(FOX)- Hedi Hammami, 47, tells The New York Times that he wants to go back because there is no future for him in Tunisia.
“It would be better for me to go back to that single cell and to be left alone,” he told the paper. “Two or three weeks ago I went to the Red Cross and asked them to connect me to the U.S. foreign ministry to ask to go back to Guantánamo.”
He says the Red Cross refused to entertain his request, the paper reports.
The paper reports that Hammami hasn’t been happy for a long time in Tunisia.
He lost his government job, was placed under house arrest in 2015 and remains under “administrative control.” He told the Times the police have raided his homes and harassed him in other ways.
He was shipped to Guantanamo from Pakistan in 2002 after the military said he spent time in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.