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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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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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From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?

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Free The Guantanamo Uighurs!

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.

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Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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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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