EU ministers meet over Guantanamo detainees

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today held preliminary talks on informal calls from Washington to grant asylum to as many as 60 Guantanamo inmates against whom America has insufficient evidence to prosecute, but who cannot be sent back to their own countries once Guantanamo closes, for fear of torture and persecution.

The UK is the only country to have accepted back any inmates so far, and remains reluctant to take any with no UK links.