More than half of the 94 Afghans at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay would be released, Legal Advisor to Interior Ministry Abdul Jabbar Sabit said Wednesday.

"A group of Afghan detainees, I think more than half of them who are innocent or committed little offensives would be released from Guantanamo," Sabit told reporters after return from the Cuban bay of the U.S. Navy base.

Sabit, who headed an Afghan delegation from different government institutions including the ministries of Interior and Justice for 10 days to Guantanamo and talked to Afghan detainees, added that some ministers of the ousted Taliban regime were among the detainees.

However, he did not say the exact date set for their release or would they be persecuted at home.

More than 100 suspected Taliban operatives have been released from Guantanamo over the past three years and the Afghan government is trying to take all Afghan detainees back and investigate at home.

The U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan allies had arrested hundreds of Taliban loyalists and thousands of others on charge of having link with Taliban and al-Qaida network after the collapse of Taliban regime in late 2001 and hundreds of them had been taken to Guantanamo.

In addition to 94 Afghans, Sabit added that one Afghan origin of Tajikistan national and one Afghan born Libyan were also among detainees languishing in Guantanamo prison.

Contrary to human right organization he expressed satisfaction over the jail condition saying the prisoners were enjoying television programs, sport and having freedom to worship.

Different human rights organizations and the UN body have criticized the U.S. government over the detainees' poor condition and the United Nations has called for its closure a demand rejected by Washington.

Source: Xinhua