It is shame none in the Muslim world would accept these prosecuted Uighur detainees. Shame.
The United States government has held twenty-two Uyghurs in Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. Eighteen of the detainees were present at Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) conducted by the U.S. military to review their cases.
Uyghurs are an ethnic group from Central Asia and Xinjiang province in western China.[1]
The Uyghurs call their homeland East Turkestan.
The Washington Post reported on August 24, 2005 that fifteen Uyghurs had been determined to be "No longer enemy combatants" (NLEC) after all.[2] The Post reported that detainees who had been classified as NLEC were, not only still being incarcerated, but were still being shackled to the floor. Five of these Uyghurs, who had filed for writs of habeas corpus, were transported to Albania on May 5, 2006 just prior to a scheduled judicial review of their petitions. As of June 22, 2008, seventeen Uyghur men remain incarcerated at Guantanamo. Two years ago, an Administrative Review Board declared all but one to be "approved for release." The Pentagon had previously determined, reportedly as early as 2003, that the Uyghurs should be released. They continue to be incarcerated.
None of the Uyghurs wanted to be returned to China. The United States declined to grant the Uyghurs political asylum, or to allow them parole, or even freedom on the Naval Base.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uighur_detainees_in_Guantanamo
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4894921
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/uighurs.php
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/news.asp?ItemID=343112032&rcid=803688565&pcid=1110134820&cid=803688565
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/holder-says-some-uighur-detainees-could-go-to-us/
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