Two Guantanamo detainees resettled in Ireland four months ago are "adapting very well" to life in the west of Ireland and next week another former Guantanamo inmate will urge government to accept more released detainees from the controversial detention camp.

It is understood that Uzbekistan nationals Oybek Jabbarov and Shakhrukh Hamiduva were resettled in the west of Ireland in September upon their release from the detention camp. Both men have accessed education and pre-college preparatory courses, the Sunday Tribune understands. The two men are living in private accommodation and are under the supervision of the Department of Justice, which has been praised by sources close to the men for the assistance it has provided. The two have declined all interview requests to date as they try to adapt to their new lives.

Moazzam Begg was one of nine British citizens held and eventually released without charge in January 2005 from Guantanamo. He will address a public meeting organised by Amnesty International Ireland on Monday 8 February at the Irish Aid Centre on Dublin's O'Connell Street at 7pm. He will also meet with representatives from the departments of justice and foreign affairs.

Speaking to the Sunday Tribune, he said he hoped to meet up with the Uzbekistan nationals resettled here.

"First of all, I will be thanking the Irish government for accepting two people from Guantanamo. I will be urging them to take more," he said. "Guantanamo will be remembered as a dark age in our history. The people and countries that helped to put an end to it will also be remembered."

Begg had been living in Kabul with his wife and three children when working on a project to build a school with a British human rights group. In 2001, he left with his family when the US began bombing Kabul and they travelled to Pakistan. On 31 January 2002, armed CIA agents arrested Begg in the dead of night at gunpoint in front of his terrified family. He did not see his wife and children for another three years.

Two of his three years at the detention centre were spent in solitary confinement. "There was torture and cruelty and degrading treatment. I saw two people beaten to death and many repeatedly spat on and kicked. I also saw people being treated well by the guards, so it was the whole gauntlet of the experience."

Following his release, Begg established the British organisation Cageprisoners. "I have been in touch with one of the two men resettled in Ireland. They both seem to be very happy. Anyone going to the Emerald Isle as a free man from being a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has a lot of reasons to be happy."