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NEWS ABOUT: Uighurs

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Palau's Prez
Makes Moral
Call to Take
in Detainees

'They're not monsters,' says island leader

Jun 15, 09 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - That Palau's president was once a defense lawyer may explain why he risked upsetting his island's 20,000 residents and their peaceful isolation from the world to take in 13 former Guantanamo detainees. "They should be presumed innocent because no one has proven them guilty," newly elected Johnson... More »

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island • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees • Uighurs • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

(Newser) - The Chinese Muslims freed from Guantanamo last week had never heard of al-Qaeda before arriving in Cuba, one of them tells the Royal Gazette of Bermuda. "From what we have heard about them, they are an extremely radical group, with totally different ideals from ours," said Salahidin Abdulahad,... More »

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China • Muslims • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Bermuda • Chinese Muslims • Abdulla Abdulqadir • Salahidin Abdulahad

 Obama Gives Up On
 Resettling Detainees in US

Plans abandoned after Uighur deals, congressional opposition

Jun 12, 09 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The administration has largely abandoned plans to allow Guantanano detainees cleared for release to settle in the US, the Washington Post reports. Plans to allow Uighur detainees who said their only enemy was the Chinese government to live in the US met firm opposition from Congress. Four Uighurs were sent... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • President Obama

Britain Bashes Bermuda for Taking Gitmo Inmates

Overseas territory told it's getting too big for its britches with resettlement deal

Jun 12, 09 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain has berated its oldest remaining colony for taking in former Guantanamo detainees without asking London's permission first, the BBC reports. American officials say they dealt directly with Bermuda on the issue, through its British-appointed governor, as they arranged to release four Chinese Muslim Uighurs to Bermuda. More »

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Guantanamo Bay • Britain • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Bermuda

4 Chinese Gitmo Detainees Freed to Bermuda

Beijing opposes sending other Muslim inmates to Palau

Jun 11, 09 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four Chinese Muslims inmates from Guantanamo have been released in Bermuda in the first successful US resettlement of Uighurs since 2006, the AP reports. The disposition of 13 others is unclear, according to the Miami Herald, but Palau has offered to accept them, a move China opposes. Beijing has called... More »

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China • Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Bermuda • Chinese Muslims • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

 Palau to Take Gitmo's 
 Chinese Detainees 

Island nation's move resolves key camp-closing concern

Jun 10, 09 8:41 AM CDT
(AP) - Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration's decision to close the prison camp. The announcement, which would clear the last of the Uighurs from the camp, was a... More »

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China • Guantanamo Bay • Uighurs • Obama administration • Chinese Muslims • President Obama • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

(Newser) - The US wants to resettle Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay on the Pacific island nation of Palau, the AP reports. Palau, whose eight main islands lie 500 miles east of the Philippines, has strong ties to the US and depends on it for aid and protection. Daniel Fried, the... More »

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South Pacific • Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Obama administration • Daniel Fried • Palau

(Newser) - The 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo issued a challenge to the Supreme Court today in petitioning for their release, the Miami Herald reports. "The historic role of the Judicial Branch is to demand the release of prisoners precisely when the political branches find release inconvenient," their... More »

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China • terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • US Supreme Court • detainees • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims

Europe Balks
at Taking Gitmo Detainees

After US Congress raises objections, allies change tune

May 29, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration has intensely lobbied its European allies to allow at least 50 Guantanamo detainees to resettle overseas. But as the US Congress rebels against the president's plans to move inmates to federal prisons, reports the Washington Post, an already skeptical Europe has strengthened its objections. "If the... More »

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Germany • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Obama administration

 China Takes 
 Bulldozers 
 to Ancient 
 Islamic City 

Beijing plans demolition of one of the Silk Road's oldest sites

May 28, 09 6:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Islamic city of Kashgar, in China's far west, has some of the best preserved traditional architecture on the ancient Silk Road, and more than a million tourists a year visit the rambling mud-and-straw buildings that Genghis Khan once passed by. Now, however, the Chinese government wants to tear down... More »

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China • Islam • demolition • Chinese Communist party • Uighurs • Silk Road

OPINION

If You Care About Freedom, Free the Gitmo 60


May 20, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - About 60 of the inmates at Guantanamo haven't committed any crime. The courts cleared them of all charges, and the military declared them not dangerous. Yet they’re entering their eighth year in custody, because Congress apparently doesn’t give a damn, Sabin Willett writes in the New York ... More »

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House of Representatives • Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Sabin Willett

(Newser) - There are two time zones in Kashgar, China, and they’re two hours apart. Which you follow depends not on geographic location, but on ethnic identity. The town’s dominant Muslim Uighur minority refuses to set its clocks by China’s single, standardized time, instead using the same wacky, sun-based... More »

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China • time zones • Mao Zedong • ethnic tensions • Uighurs

US Appeals Ruling to Free Chinese From Gitmo

US appeal of ruling strands 17, held since 2001 without charge

Nov 1, 08 4:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - 17 Chinese prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay will stay there indefinitely pending an appeal of a judge’s decision that they be released, the Guardian reports. “They were on freedom's doorstep," their frustrated lawyer said. “The plane was at Gitmo.” Refugee and religious organizations in the... More »

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China • Department of Justice • appeal • Guantanamo Bay • refugee • federal judges • terror suspects • Uighurs

 Bush Committed 
 to Gitmo Gulag 

Come hell or Supreme Court, administration believes in controversial lock up

Oct 21, 08 3:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite his stated desire to the contrary, President Bush and his most hawkish aides are determined to keep prison facilities operating at Guantánamo Bay, reports the New York Times. Bush made up his mind following a Supreme Court ruling in the summer granting 250 detainees the right to challenge... More »

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Dick Cheney • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court • Fort Leavenworth • George W. Bush • detainees • Uighurs • Supermax • Naval Consolidated Brig

Appeals Court Halts Release of 17 at Gitmo

Goverment seeks to reverse decision to free Chinese Muslims

Oct 9, 08 7:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - An appeals court has blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay after the Bush administration filed an emergency motion. A lower court had ruled that the men, members of the Uighur minority who have been imprisoned for 7 years, must be released. That decision also said... More »

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China • Bush administration • US Appeals court • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims

 Judge Orders 17
 Gitmo Inmates Freed

Major blow to White House as judge refers to nation's 'founding principle'

Oct 8, 08 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a huge blow to the Bush administration a federal judge has ordered the immediate release of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for seven years, reports the Washington Post. He said the men must be released to volunteer Uighur families by Friday for possible resettlement... More »

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Pentagon • Department of Justice • Muslims • Guantanamo Bay • Department of Homeland Security • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims

ANALYSIS

China Likely to Use Georgia War to Justify Crackdowns

Beijing sees conflict as new lesson to keep minorities in line

Aug 19, 08 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government will likely seize upon the Georgia conflict to justify crackdowns on its own separatists in Tibet and Xinjiang, according to a Bloomberg analysis. Chinese officials view the Georgia conflict "as the result of Russia's inability to control the country," and they don't want to make... More »

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China • Soviet Union • Georgia • Tibet • separatists • Central Asia • Xinjiang • Uighurs

 Blast Kills 2 in Western China 

Attack follows last week's killing of 16 in Muslim minority region

Aug 9, 08 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Explosions killed at least two people and injured several in western China Sunday, the AP reports. The blasts rocked the Muslim minority region of Xinjiang, home to the Uighurs, despite increased security after a similar attack left 16 dead this week. Gunfire reportedly followed the explosions, and police have cordoned... More »

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China • terrorism • Xinjiang • Uighurs

Court Likens Gitmo Case to Absurd Poem

Lewis Carroll cited
in mocking decision
to void detention

Jul 1, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - In ruling that a Gitmo detainee has been improperly held for 6 years, a federal appeals court deemed the government's standard of evidence on par with an absurdist poem of the 19th century. The DC Court of Appeals voided the detention of Huzaifa Parhat last week, but yesterday it released... More »

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US Appeals court • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Boumediene • Uighurs • Huzaifa Parhat

Gitmo Prisoner Must Be Tried or Freed, Court Rules

Administration's 'enemy combatant' designation invalidated

Jun 23, 08 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a rebuke of the Pentagon's Guantanamo policy, a federal appeals court has ruled that a prisoner was improperly designated an "enemy combatant," the New York Times reports. The ruling—issued Friday and announced today but not released in full because parts of it are classified—ordered that... More »

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military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • US Supreme Court • detainees • Uighurs • Huzaifa Parhat

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