Katie Taylor, a case worker from the British legal charity Reprieve who is assisting El Meshad, said she would keep talking with Albanian and Egyptian authorities. "It's time to let him go home," she said.
Although Albania has not said why El Meshad cannot travel to Egypt, Taylor said Guantanamo Bay is still a "political issue" in the United States and that Tirana may fear harming its close ties with Washington if it grants El Meshad's request.
Albania has accepted 11 former Guantanamo prisoners since 2006 -- none of them Albanians.
Taylor said other countries such as Italy, Slovakia and Georgia have let many of their resettled ex-Guantanamo detainees go back home.
