In news on Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge has temporarily barred the U.S. government from transferring 13 Yemeni detainees from the military jail back to another country because of concern for their safety. On Friday the New York Times reported that the Pentagon is seeking to transfer hundreds of Guantanamo detainees to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen. Mark Falkoff, one of the attorneys representing the Yemenis, said he was concerned his clients would be tortured in the custody of another country. In addition such a transfer would also sabotage a pending U.S. court petition on the legality of the detention of the 13 Yemins. Falkoff said “If they were sent away from Guantanamo, our court case would essentially be moot, because the judge would no longer have jurisdiction over the case.”