Court: Chinese at Guantanamo Can't Be Freed in U.S.; POLS 366

A federal appeals court panel ruled that 17 native Chinese Muslims in military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot be released into the United States. The 17 men are Uighurs, an ethnic group from western China. They are accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan. Some of the detainees have been cleared for release since 2003, but the United States will not send them back to their homeland because of concern they would be tortured by Chinese authorities. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/18/gitmo.detainees/index.html?iref=newssearch