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| Algerian detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has left the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp for France, officials say. | Algerian detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has left the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp for France, officials say. |
| Mr Boumediene was arrested in Bosnia in 2001 and was held for seven years. He was cleared for release in November. | Mr Boumediene was arrested in Bosnia in 2001 and was held for seven years. He was cleared for release in November. |
| He won a landmark Supreme Court case granting Guantanamo inmates the right to challenge their confinement. | He won a landmark Supreme Court case granting Guantanamo inmates the right to challenge their confinement. |
| The release comes on the same day that US President Barack Obama announced that he was reviving military trials for some detainees. | |
| Earlier this month, France offered to accept Mr Boumediene, 42, after he was cleared of any wrongdoing in November by a US judge who ruled he had been illegally detained. | |
| Mr Boumediene was flown from the US naval base in south-eastern Cuba to waiting relatives in France. | Mr Boumediene was flown from the US naval base in south-eastern Cuba to waiting relatives in France. |
| He had been on hunger strike since December 2006 and was force-fed twice a day through a nose-drip, the AFP news agency reported. | |
| His wife and two daughters, who went to Algeria after his arrest, will also be taken in by France, it said. | |
| Landmark case | |
| Mr Boumediene was among six men arrested in Bosnia in 2001 and charged with plotting to attack the US embassy in Sarajevo. They were formally exonerated by Bosnian prosecutors in 2004. | |
| All six said they were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques at Guantanamo, which involved prolonged isolation, forced nudity, and sleep deprivation. | |
| Mr Boumediene was one of two detainees who won a case before the US Supreme Court last June on behalf of 37 foreign nationals at the US-run prison camp. | |
| The ruling gave Guantanamo prisoners the long-standing habeas corpus right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. | |
| Since then, federal judges have ordered the release of 25 prisoners, including three of Mr Boumediene's fellow Algerian nationals. | |
| The men were transferred to their adoptive home of Bosnia in December, becoming the first Guantanamo inmates to be released by the former Bush administration under a judge's orders. |