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Leaving Guantanamo

If this were the Eighteenth Century, the Uighur detainees at Guantanamo would have been sent to Australia. Instead, four of them were just sent to Bermuda, and thirteen others await possible resettlement in Palau. Five were sent to Albania in 2006. Members of an oppressed Turkic minority from Xinjaing province in western China, the Uighurs have been cleared to leave Guantanamo for some time, yet they cannot be returned home for fear of persecution. Last October, a federal judge ordered their release into the United States, finding that they were innocent of any connection to terrorism, and that the local Uighur community was eager to assist in their reintegration into society....
Published Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:38 PM by FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles

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