On a visit to Guantánamo, Department of Defense spokesman Joe DellaVedova told me that a series of panels are reviewing the detainees’ files, a process that will take until this year’s end. The review will sort the detainees into three categories: those who will be tried in criminal courts in the US; those who will be released and sent to other countries; and those who “can’t be released and can’t be tried and so have to be held indefinitely…what is being called ‘preventive detention.’”
在一次对关塔那摩监狱的访问中，美国国防部发言人乔·德拉卫多瓦告诉我，已经有多个专责小组正重新审阅在押人员的档案，而整个过程将一直持续到今年年末。这个程序会把囚犯分成三类：第一类将在美国国内的刑事法庭接受审判；第二类将被释放并遣送到其他国家；剩下的一部分将是那些“既不能被释放也无法接受审判，因此将被无限期关押的……即所谓的‘防范性拘留’人员。”