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Amnesty International calls for release of Uighur detainees

Thu, 01/29/2009 - 12:20am

January 26: Amnesty International reiterates its call for the Uighur detainees at Guantanamo to be released.

Amnesty International believes that the new administration must play its part in what it will be asking other countries to do – to take released detainees – and that for it to do so could only encourage a positive response from other governments in this regard. The US administration should start by dropping the government’s appeal against Judge Urbina’s order and releasing the Uighurs into the USA. Amnesty International can see no reason for the cases of the Uighurs to be included in the review ordered by President Obama. There is no reason that their release into the USA should be delayed any longer.