Guantanamo Bay release overturned
Submitted by Editor on February 18, 2009 – 2:51 pmNo Comment
The 17 have been in Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years
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US federal appeals court has rejected the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees onto US soil, reports say.
A US judge ruled last year that the 17 Uighurs – Chinese Muslims – were no longer enemy combatants and should be released into the United States.
China has requested their return, but the US will not send them home for fear they will be persecuted.
No other country has agreed to take the men, who have been detained since they were picked up in Afghanistan in 2001.
The appeals court said that only the executive branch, not the judiciary, could make decisions on immigration, Associated Press news agency said.
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