The government is hopeful that two of its citizens being held at the Guantanamo Bay camp will be released and sent home after Barack Obama is sworn in as US president, a report said Tuesday.
Obama said Sunday he would shut down the "war on terror" internment camp and rebuild "America's moral stature in the world."
Foreign Minister Rais Yatim told the state Bernama news agency that the US had ignored a request to allow detainees Mohamad Farik Amin and Mohammed Nazir Lep to return to Malaysia to face justice.
"No charges have been brought against them, and this is worse than the ISA (Internal Security Act)," he said, referring to Malaysia's own internal security law, which Washington has frequently criticised.
The detained Malaysian pair are accused of being close associates of Hambali, an Indonesian also being held at Guantanamo who is suspected of being a key member of Southeast Asian extremist group Jemaah Islamiah.
They are also accused of being chosen as members of a suicide attack squad that had targeted Los Angeles.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2006 urged the US to shut down the prison camp, saying it had come to be regarded as a torture centre.
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