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...Padmanabhan, who recently left the State Department to become a visiting assistant professor at the Cardozo School in New York City. "China is a big country on the block, so people don't like to do things that anger the Chinese government." (See here for pictures from inside Guantánamo...
When Vijay Padmanabhan worked as the lead State Department attorney on detainee issues, the answers he got from foreign capitals about the 17 Chinese Muslims in Guantánamo was almost always the same. Dignitaries told Padmanabhan again and again that they could not take the men, who belong to China's Uighur (pronounced WEE-gur) ethnic minority. There is an active Uighur separatist movement in China, and elements of it have been accused of terrorist acts in the People's Republic. The U.S. has not admitted any freed Guantánamo prisoners onto its soil, Padmanabhan was reminded by officials from...
...Beijing, however, suspects the Uighurs are part of a guerilla separatist movement based in the far west of China and wants them handed over to Chinese authorities. U.S. law forbids delivering individuals over to countries where they may face mistreatment. And so the Uighurs have sat in Guantánamo, essentially homeless, for years...
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Obama may opt to release dozens of others and insist that the remaining handful of high-profile cases be heard in either federal or military courts in the U.S. Already dozens of Guantánamo cases are moving through the federal court system following a pivotal Supreme Court ruling in June, and the Bush Administration is grappling with two separate rulings from federal judges ordering the release of 22 detainees...