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Uighurs in Guantanamo

Friday, October 10, 2008

Earlier this week, a U.S. federal judge ordered that 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay prison camp be released into the U.S. Now a 3-judge panel has blocked the ruling. Human Rights Watch Senior Counterterrorism Council Jennifer Daskal tells us why the Uighurs aren’t being released, and what’s in store for them.

Hear Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview on anti-Uighur discrimination in China


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