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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Palau, United Kingdom, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdul Semet, US District Court, Justice Department, Abdul Nasser, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Bermuda, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Guantanamo Bay, Huzaifa Parhat, Jalal Jalaladin, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.

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Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Judge Judith Rogers, US Appeals Court, Adel Hakimjan, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Adel Abdul Hakim, Barack Obama, Enemy Combatant, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Albania, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, Huzaifa Parhat, Sweden, China, US Asylum, Guantanamo Files, World News
Andy Worthington

First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Congress, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Bosnia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Mohammed El-Gharani, Hisham Sliti, Closing Guantanamo, Belkacem Bensayah, Yemen, Tunisia, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge Richard Leon, Obama First 100 Days, Muaz Al-Alawi, Huzaifa Parhat, World News
Andy Worthington

Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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From Guantanamo to the United States? Meet the Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Uighurs, Parhat v. Gates, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Huzaifa Parhat, US District Court, China, Uighurs, Albania, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

On Tuesday, in an extraordinary and unprecedented ruling in a US District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled that 17 wrongly imprisoned Chinese Muslims...

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Guantanamo: Government Says Six Years Is Not Long Enough To Prepare Evidence

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, UN Convention Against Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Huzaifa Parhat, US District Court, Judge Thomas Hogan, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Imagine after six and a half years of this imprisonment -- in which, unlike convicted criminals on the US mainland, you have never been charged or tried, and have not been allowed a single visit from your loved ones.

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Guantanamo as Alice in Wonderland

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Lewis Carroll, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, China, Uighurs, Parhat v. Bush, Detainee Treatment Act, Habeas Corpus, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Huzaifa Parhat, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Merrick B. Garland, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" belongs in a fantasy world. At the heart of this fantasy world are the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

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Six Years Late, Court Throws Out Guantanamo Case

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Sabin Willett, China, US District Court, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Boumediene v. Bush, Detainee Treatment Act, Habeas Corpus, Uighurs, Huzaifa Parhat, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Parhat v. Gates is another significant challenge to executive overreach. Parhat is one of 18 Uighur detainees who fled persecution in China and was arrested in Pakistan with no evidence against him.

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