BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities on Tuesday charged two Belgian citizens, who had been held at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, for criminal association, federal prosecutors said.
The men were questioned on Tuesday by a judge in Brussels and were later released, a spokeswoman for prosecutors office, Lieve Pellens, told AFP
"The investigation is continuing and they will be questioned again," Pellens said, declining to give details about what the two men are accused of.
Earlier the Belga news agency had reported that the two had been charged with belonging to a criminal organisation.
The two men -- a Belgian of Moroccan origin and another of Turkish ancestry -- arrived late Monday by Belgian military C-130 transport aircraft at the Moelsbroek airbase.
One of the men, a dual Belgian-Turkish national, was arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, while the other, a Moroccan-Belgian, was captured in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
The repatriation of the two Belgians comes nearly a month after US officials said they planed to return 38 prisoners it held as "enemy combatants" at its Guantanamo base since 2001 or 2002.
04/26/2005 18:33 GMT