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...JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, appealing a federal ruling to release 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantánamo...
...true fear is not that they will pose a security threat but that they will serve as living reminders of the Administration's mistakes in setting up Guantánamo...
...landmark ruling, a federal judge ordered the Bush Administration to immediately release 17 Muslims from Guantánamo Bay and bring them to the U.S. The captives, members of China's Uighur ethnic minority, haven't been considered enemy combatants since 2004 but remained at Gitmo because no country except China would take them. (The detainees' lawyers insist the captives would be tortured in their homeland.) The ruling, which faces appeal, could pave the way for more detainee releases...
...Kent commissioned journalist Victoria Brittain and novelist Gillian Slovo to create a verbatim play about British detainees at Guantánamo Bay based on interviews with released detainees, families of detainees and their lawyers. Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' opened to wide acclaim, transferred to the West End and was also produced in New York City. Last spring a reading was staged for members of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill. "What Nick is about is, 'What can we be doing next?'" says Tricycle general manager Mary Lauder. "'What should we be tackling? What can we change...
...department in Al-Jazeera's Qatar newsroom, which is to launch a weekly human-rights show in Arabic next month. Despite his years in captivity for, he believes, no good reason, Al-Hajj insists he holds no animus towards Americans. "So many Americans wrote to me in Guantánamo. And I have many American friends...