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SCOTUS to Consider Abuse Photos and Uighurs’ Release Tuesday

By | 09.28.09 | 2:57 pm

Among the cases the Supreme Court will consider reviewing in its private meeting tomorrow are two controversial cases arising out of the war on terror. Both question whether the president’s authority over detainees and information about their treatment is absolute, or reviewable by the federal courts.

The first More…

Should He Stay or Should He Go? Uighur Faces Dillemma

By | 09.28.09 | 9:10 am

Although Guantanamo Bay detainee Bahtiyar Mahnut has been invited, along with 11 more of his fellow Chinese Uighurs, to settle in the island nation of Palau, it seems he’s decided not to go because Palau has not invited his 45-year-old older brother, Arkin Mahmud, to go with him. More…

Switzerland May Take Four Gitmo Detainees

By | 09.21.09 | 8:55 am

Switzerland sent officials last month to visit the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay to collect information about four detainees it’s considering accepting for resettlement, The Associated Press reports.

The men being considered are reportedly two Chinese Muslim Uighurs, an Uzbek and a Palestinian. The men the More…

Not Everyone Is Happy About the Relocation of the Uighurs

By | 06.12.09 | 4:50 pm

It’s not just residents of Alexandria, Va., who are uncomfortable with the prospect of hosting Guantanamo Bay detainees in their backyards. Some residents of the Pacific nation of Palau, where 13 Chinese Uighurs detained at Gitmo are set to be relocated, are expressing indignation over what More…

From Gitmo to Bermuda

By | 06.11.09 | 12:34 pm

So I guess the island of Palau isn’t taking all 17 Uighurs after all.  The Justice Department today announced that four of them were actually sent to Bermuda instead.

Less than a month ago these Chinese Muslim prisoners were the subject of intense debate in Congress and More…

17 Uighurs and $200 Million? Not a Bad Deal

By | 06.10.09 | 10:15 am

Palau’s decision to accept the 17 Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay, whom the United States and numerous other countries refused to take, may have been influenced by a generous foreign aid offer from the United States.

The Associated Press reports that “two U.S. officials, who spoke More…

Palau Agrees to Take the Uighurs, Who Never Thought They’d Be on a Boat

By | 06.10.09 | 9:02 am

And so ends a demagoguery-laced vignette from the Age of Terrorism, as Daphne and Weigel have been all over: the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau has agreed to “resettl[e] and repatriat[e]” the 17 Uighur detainees housed at Guantanamo Bay whom the Bush administration no longer considered More…