A federal judge has ruled the continued detention of a Yemeni citizen at Guantánamo is unlawful. The ruling could force the US military to soon release Mohammed Hassan Odaini, who has been held since he was eighteen years old. Six years ago, a Pentagon official concluded Odaini could be cleared for release, but he remains locked up. In his ruling, US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy wrote, “the evidence before the court shows that holding Odaini in custody at such great cost to him has done nothing to make the United States more secure.”