"Court backs Guantanamo prisoner" by James Vicini, Reuters | June 24, 2008
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court yesterday overturned a US military tribunal's enemy combatant designation for a Chinese Muslim at the Guantanamo Bay prison, its first ruling that gives a detainee a chance for release.
It ordered the US government to release or transfer Huzaifa Parhat, a member of the Uighur ethnic group, or to "expeditiously" hold a new military tribunal for him.
Parhat, who was captured in Afghanistan and who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for six years, is one of several Uighurs still at the prison. The United States has struggled to find a country willing to accept the Uighurs.
But we have no problem rendering guys to Syria or Egypt, etc, for torture?
In 2006, the United States allowed five Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo to seek asylum in Albania. The US government has said it cannot return the Uighurs to China because they would face persecution there.
But we have no problem rendering guys to Syria or Egypt, etc, for torture?
Many Muslim Uighurs, who are from Xinjiang in far western China, seek greater autonomy for the region and some want independence.
Who doesn't?
Beijing has waged a relentless campaign against what it calls the violent separatist activities of the Uighurs....
Gee, look at the sympathy and understanding from the Zionist press over a CHINESE Muslim, huh?
Makes me wonder if the Uighurs are another branch of "Al-CIA-Duh!"
China is that much of an enemy, huh?
Oh, guess not!
So WTF is with the SHIT FOOLEYS?!
This article to make it look like we DON'T TORTURE?!
How compassionate we are because we don't send the Muslim back to the Chinese?
Sigh!
The court also said Parhat can seek his immediate release before a US District judge under the Supreme Court's landmark ruling this month that the detainees have the legal right to challenge their years-long confinement.
A key issue in the Parhat case was whether he had been involved in any activity that would justify designating him as an enemy combatant.
The government argued that Parhat was trained by a group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and that it has links to al Qaeda. That was enough to hold him, it said.
That answers all my questions.
Parhat's lawyers said he considered China, not the United States, the enemy, and that there was no evidence that he ever joined the group.
There are about 270 detainees at the US military base at Guantanamo, which was set up in January of 2002 to hold terrorism suspects captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Most of the prisoners have been held for years without being charged and many have complained of abuse."You mean TORTURE, don't you, AmeriKan MSM?
