Uruguay's Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa (R) reads a document during a press conference regarding former Guantanamo detainee Jihad Diyab from Syria who has been on a hunger strike in Montevideo, Uruguay October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay on Friday urged a former Guantanamo prisoner demanding to be reunited with his family to end a two-month-old hunger strike and said it was trying to transfer him to another country.
Jihad Diyab, a Syrian national, was held for 12 years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without being charged and was released along with five other prisoners to Uruguay in 2014 to reduce the number of detainees.
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