The administration says it seeks assurance that detainees will not bepersecuted or harmed if sent back home, but also that it does not track detainees once they have left Guantanamo.
Although the welfare benefits it offers asylum-seekers are not the most generous in the European Union, British judges interpret the 1951 convention more liberally than others, by accepting that refugees can bepersecuted by groups and not just states.