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Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Palau
Koror :: Palau | about 1 month ago
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The group arrived on the island, which agreed to a request from Washington to resettle them, on Sunday after being held for seven years at the US prison in Cuba. Johnson Toribiong, the president of Palau, met the ex-prisoners at the airport in the middle...
Tags: Palau, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Uighurs, Cuba, Barack Obama, U.S, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, islanders nation, obama administration
Palau move 'soon' for US Uighurs
Koror :: Palau | 2 months ago
Credibility The US Solicitor General Elena Kagan told the Supreme Court that the US hoped to move eight of the Uighur by 1 October, and so far six had accepted. The court is to decide next week if it will consider a plea by several of the Uighur to be resettled on...
Tags: Palau, Guantanamo Uighurs, general elena, Elena Kagan, solicitor general, Supreme Court, Congress, Guantanamo Bay, Koror
Gitmo detainees reluctant to move to Palau
Koror :: Palau | 5 months ago
Credibility A group of Guantanamo detainees expected to be resettled in Palau may not want to move to the remote Pacific nation, a Palauan official said Wednesday. Last weekend, Palau sent a fact-finding team to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to meet...
Tags: Palauan, Palau Ministry, China, palau president, Johnson Toribiong, Guantanamo Bay, president johnson, Cuba, Guantánamo Uighurs, gitmo detainees
Palau to take Uighur detainees from Gitmo
Koror :: Palau | 5 months ago
Credibility The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador...
Tags: U.S. Guantanamo Bay, Bermuda, Palauan, Uighur Detainees, China, United States, Guantánamo Uighurs, Uighur Guantanamo, Gitmo, South Pacific
Govt considers security in taking Guantanamo detainees
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility The United States plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within the next year and wants Australia to take 10 Uighurs, who are Muslims from north-western China. Australia rejected a similar request last year by the Bush administration. Foreign...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Uighurs, Omar Khadr, Barack Obama, Australian, war crimes, crimes court, president barack
Chinese Muslims stay stranded at Guantánamo
Cuba :: MO :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Seventeen Chinese Muslims being held at the Guantánamo prison camp for suspected terrorists have lost a bid to live temporarily in the United States pending their resettlement in a third country. In a much-anticipated ruling, a federal appeals court in...
Tags: Guantanamo Uighurs, Guantánamo, Guantanamo Bay, China
Court Blocks Uighurs' Transfer
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Circuit reversed a lower court ruling that ordered the transfer. The 17 Chinese Muslims, all Uighurs, have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002...Sabin Willett, an attorney representing the Uighurs, called today's decision "one of the darkest days in...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Uighurs, U.S. Military, Barack Obama, appeals courts, Cuba, Latvia, president barack, United States, federal appeals
Judge orders Guantanamo releases
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A federal judge on Tuesday, in a rebuke to the Bush administration, ordered the release in the United States of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba...District Judge Ricardo Urbina read his ruling...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, judge orders, U.S, United States, Cuba, federal judge, uses federal, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bush, orders released
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