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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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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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Four Guantanamo Uighurs Released, Headed To Bermuda

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Four Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay prison were freed Thursday and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints from China...

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Palau Can't Take The Uighurs: Says China

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take ...

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Pacific island set to accept Gitmo's Chinese Muslims

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home

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Uighurs are an ethnic Muslim population who have been persecuted by the Chinese government. The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has agree...

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Palau To Take Uighur Detainees

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced Wednesday it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have langu...

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Uighurs Stage Rare Protest At Guantanamo Using Pentagon-Issued Crayons

miamiherald.com | By CAROL ROSENBERG | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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A federal judge has ordered the release of 17 Uighurs, Chinese Muslims, from the Guantánamo detention camp. But they're still there, and on Monday th...

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Free The Guantanamo Uighurs!

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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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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Dem Senators Open To Allowing Innocent Chinese Detainees To Live In U.S.

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Cardin, Dick Durbin, Chinese Muslims, Byron Dorgan, Uighurs, Politics News

Members of Congress from both parties have been climbing over each other lately to be the most forceful opponent of transferring Guantanamo Bay detain...

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Uighurs Fire Back At Gingrich From Gitmo: "Why Does He Hate Us So Much?"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, detained for more than six years and counting at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, are firing back at Newt Ging...

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Obama's Uighur Plan Poses Political Problems

Inter Press Service | William Fisher | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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NEW YORK, May 4 (IPS) - The probability that some Guantanamo detainees will soon be released into the U.S. will place the administration of Preside...

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

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U.S. Plans To Accept Uighurs In First Release Of Detainees Into America

Los Angeles Times | Julian E. Barnes | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration is preparing to admit into the United States as many as seven Chinese Muslims who have been impr...

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China Executes Two Uighurs For Pre-Olympics Police Killings

Guardian | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: China Attacks, Foreign Affairs, China Executions, China Olympics, China, Uighurs, Advocacy, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Terror Raid, Xinjiang, World News

China executed two men from a Muslim minority group today for killing 17 police officers in an attack in the country's far west that the government po...

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A Letter to Barack Obama from a Guantanamo Uighur

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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Mr. President, seventeen of my brothers remain in Guantánamo today. It is three years since I left the prison, and still they are there. Please end their suffering soon.

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Uighurs Denied Release In US: Court Reverses Ruling

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that 17 Turkic Muslims cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay must stay at the prison c...

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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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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Obama's Decisive Break with Bush's "War on Terror" Policies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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Obama's new Orders are a bold start, but more detail is required, dangerous loopholes must be shut off permanently, and other parts of the Bush administration's dark legacy need to be swiftly addressed.

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Closing Gitmo Requires Tough Judgments On Inmates

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President-elect Barack Obama's planned review of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, a prelude to closing the detention center, mu...

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Freed Bosnian Calls Guantanamo "The Worst Place In The World"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Congress, Military Commissions Act, Mohammed Nechla, Uighurs, Detainee Treatment Act, Barack Obama, Hadj Boudella, Habeas Corpus, Judge Richard Leon, Mustafa Ait Idr, Bosnia, Sabir Lahmar, Lakhdar Boumediene, Prisoners Released From Guantanamo, Politics News

It remains an appalling indictment of the Bush administration's detention policies that it took nearly seven years for the case of three Bosnian Algerian Guantanamo inmates to be reviewed.

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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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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Conservatives Call On Bush To Release Gitmo Detainees

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A group of conservatives is chastising the Bush administration for refusing to free 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at...

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Guantanamo Uyghurs' resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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Guantánamo is full of bleak stories. How could it fail to be, when it is a vast failed experiment, a "terror prison" that contains few terrorists, a ...

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From Guantanamo to the United States? Meet the Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

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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 Chinese Muslims Must Be Released Into US, Judge Says

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Tuesday to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United ...

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China's Olympic Insecurity

Jamie Metzl | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, Olympics, Falun Gong, Chinese Government, Suppressing Dissent, China and Tibet, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Uighurs, Chinese Censorship, Beijing Olympics, Politics News

The Chinese deserve their moment in the sun. If, however, the Tibetans, Falun Gong, or Uighurs in China cause a nationalist backlash, the ugly face of Chinese nationalism will be exposed.

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