In implementation of the instructions of Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, President of Saudi Red Crescent Authority, the Authority continues the implementation of the program to communicate with the detainees at Guantanamo through many visual and telephone calls between detainees and their relatives. Prince Bandar bin Faisal, Deputy Director General of General Department for International Affairs and the Program's Supervisor pointed out that the number of detainees at Guantanamo registered at the Department is 34 detainees, including 12 Saudis, 18 Yemenis, two Pakistanis, and one Palestinian, in addition to 3 detainees at Bagram in Afghanistan including two Saudis and one Afghan. He said that more than 200 telephone calls have been made to all detainees in addition and more than 240 visual phone calls in 13 stages along with 23 visits paid to detainees banned from communications by a delegate of International Committee of the Red Cross and the Authority's staff. More than 2,300 members of the detainees' families have benefited from the program to communicate with the detainees, he noted and pointed out that an expatriate family residing in the Kingdom has been helped to visit her detained son in Roumieh prison in Lebanon. He reported that the Authority's President directed to provide detainees at Guantanamo with two batches of Zamzam water during the holy month of Ramadan and to provide them also with gifts including the Holy Quran, prayer mats and Miswaq (Toothpicks), stressing the President's keenness to provide all capabilities for the implementation of the program to enable Saudi and resident families in the Kingdom to communicate with their imprisoned sons. It is worth mentioning that the Saudi Red Crescent Authority began implementation of the program to communicate with detainees in Guantanamo and Bagram, Afghanistan, and the visits to the families of the detainees from the beginning of 2009 until the end of March 2013.
