Chinese Detainees at U.S. Guantanamo Prison Appeal for Release

Source: Bloomberg

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Seventeen Chinese Uighurs being held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, asked to be released immediately now that President Barack Obama has ordered the prison camp there closed within a year.

Lawyers for the Uighurs wrote the Justice and Defense Departments seeking the immediate release of their clients to the U.S., a step ordered in October by a federal judge. The Bush administration appealed that decision, while saying it no longer considers the men to be enemy combatants.

“The issue for the Obama administration is not whether the Uighurs should be released but rather where they should be released,” the lawyers said in their Jan. 23 letter. “We urge the government to release the Uighurs immediately to the only place they can be released -- the United States.”

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The men’s lawyers say they were “sold to U.S. forces by bounty hunters.” The men are being held in a reduced-security area separate from other prisoners at Guantanamo.

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Edit for spelling.

Good Lord. What a mess that place is.

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“We urge the government to release the Uighurs immediately to the only place they can be released -- the United States.”



yeah,
China knows water torture