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Guantanamo
Project
AI
Group 15's latest project is the release of the Chinese Uighurs in Guantanamo.
Although the military has acknowledged their innocence, they have been
imprisoned for the last 6 years.
WASHINGTON — Four Chinese Muslims
detained at
Guantanamo
Bay
prison were freed Thursday
and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints from China and Britain even as the
Obama administration tried to iron out details for sending more detainees to the
Pacific island of Palau.
The four were among 17 Chinese Muslims,
or Uighurs, picked up in
Afghanistan
and
Pakistan in 2001. They
remained at the military detention center in Cuba even after the U.S. government
had determined they weren't enemy combatants and should be released. Their fate
was in limbo for months while courts and nations debated their future.
read more....
"I went swimming in the ocean for the first time
ever yesterday, and it was the happiest day of my life,”
Salahidin Abdulahat,
32,
told The New York Times."
View a Slideshow of the Four Released Uighurs
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