[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3372-S3373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2544. Mr. REED submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1026. RISKS FACED BY FORMER DETAINEES AT UNITED STATES 
                   NAVAL STATION, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA, WHO ARE OF 
                   LIBYAN, UIGHUR, OR YEMENI ORIGIN IN RETURN TO 
                   THEIR COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY.

       (a) Sense of Senate.--
       (1) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
       (A) Countries that have agreed to accept detainees from the 
     detention center at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
     Bay, Cuba, have an obligation under international law to 
     ensure the individuals are not transferred to countries where 
     there is a real risk of torture, arbitrary deprivation of 
     life, or other violations of fundamental rights.
       (B) Dozens of former detainees at the detention center who 
     are of Libyan, Uighur and Yemeni origin are currently 
     resettled in third countries.
       (2) Sense of senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that 
     the countries that host former detainees who are of Libyan, 
     Uighur, or

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     Yemini origin should be cognizant of their obligations under 
     international law when making decisions about such former 
     detainees.
       (b) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall, in consultation with the Secretary of State, submit to 
     the congressional defense committees a report on the risk of 
     torture, arbitrary deprivation of life, or other violations 
     of fundamental rights that former detainees at United States 
     Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, who are of Libyan, Uighur, or 
     Yemeni origin would face if returned to their country of 
     nationality.
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