Resettle Guantanamo Uighurs in the United States

(Washington, DC) - A federal appeals court ruling that US courts lack authority to order the release of a group of Uighur detainees into the United States is a major setback to the prohibition against arbitrary detention. The 17 Chinese Uighurs, all of whom are in military detention at Guantanamo Bay, were cleared of the "enemy combatant" designation, but the United States has been unable to resettle them elsewhere...