By Steve Hendrix
Washington Post Staff Writer
When U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was looking for a place in the United States to send 17 Chinese Muslim detainees he wants released from Guantanamo Bay, the Washington area was an obvious choice. The region is home to the country’s largest concentration of refugees from the men’s ethnic [...]
In asking other countries to take the Uighurs, the Bush administration argues that US terrorism laws prohibit them from coming to the US, but critics say the government can provide waivers.
Tom Malinowski, of Human Rights Watch, said the state department had for months argued internally that the US should provide waivers for a few detainees to put pressure on other countries to help, but had met resistance from the justice department and Mr Cheney.
In the first ruling of its kind, a US court has overturned the designation of an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as an “enemy combatant”.
The appeal court judges said the Pentagon must either free or transfer Huzaifa Parhat or hold a fresh hearing.
Mr Parhat, a Muslim from China, was captured in [...]
On the 19th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese government should honor its commitment to improve human rights before the 2008 Beijing Olympics by releasing the estimated 130 Tiananmen prisoners improperly arrested or tried, Human Rights Watch said today.
Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence
By JUSTIN ROOD
U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims [...]
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Published: Tuesday April 8, 2008
The CIA secretly transported at least 14 war on terror detainees to Jordan between 2001 and 2004, making it the top “rendition” destination at that time, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
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Seema Saifee, a US lawyer representing 4 of 17 Uygur detainees in Guantanamo Bay that have been unlawfully arrested
and deported from Afghanistan.
Below is an article written by Seema Saifee published by Jursit:
British historian and journalist Andy Worthington has described Guantánamo as part of “a cruel and misguided response by the Bush administration to the September [...]
The stories of the Uyghurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from the oppressed Xinjiang province of China, formerly known as East Turkistan — have long demonstrated chronic injustice on the part of the US authorities to those who know of them, although they have only sporadically registered on the media’s radar.
Numbering 22 men in total, three [...]
In a rare direct appeal from inside Guantanamo Bay, a Chinese Muslim has said he is continuing to be held in harsh conditions at the US detention centre, despite being told years ago that he was innocent and would be released.
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In a letter released by his New York-based lawyers and obtained by the Associated Press, [...]
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