A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States.
The Bush administration immediately said it would appeal the landmark decision. The 17 Muslim Uighurs were officially declared no longer "enemy combatants" by the government earlier this year, but officials had maintained they could continue to hold Guantanamo Uighurs 'to be freed' ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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