A protester wearing an orange jumpsuit depicting a Guantanamo Bay detainee, participates in a rally outside of the White House in Washington Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, calling for a close of the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ten former inmates at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay arrived in Oman Thursday for a “temporary stay” as Washington vies to close the notorious prison, Muscat’s foreign ministry said.

Oman has received the men “in response to a request by the US administration for help to resolve the issue of detainees at Guantanamo Bay,” the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency ONA.