For Abdul Latif Nasser, a Moroccan national held in the US military-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days.

Nasser was unanimously approved for release from Guantanamo and transfer back to his home country on July 11 last year by a periodic review board.

Between November 2013 and December 2016, this high-level, interagency review process analysed the cases of 64 men who were not facing trials and had not been recommended for release by the previous review process, the Guantanamo Review Task Force in 2009.

Of the 64, 38 detainees were recommended for release.

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