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Amnesty
International Extremely Disappointed by Appeals Court
Decision to Stop Release of Uighur Detainees
BWASHINGTON, Oct 21, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire
via COMTEX/ -- Human Rights Organization Urges
Bush Administration to Allow Men into the United
States
Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty
International USA, issued the following statement
regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit's decision on Monday,
October 20 to block the release of the 17 Uighur
detainees from the U.S.-controlled detention
facility in Guantanamo Bay. Their release had been
ordered by the lower District Court on October 7:
"The latest decision regarding the continued
illegal detention of the Uighur detainees is
extremely disappointing. The U.S. Department of
Justice filed an appeal on the basis that the
District Court overstepped its authority by
allowing the Uighur detainees into the United
States. Though the Bush administration has now
conceded that the Uighurs are not enemy
combatants, the government's appeal contains
inflammatory language that goes beyond any
previous claims. These provocative assertions will
make resettlement more difficult and virtually
ensure that these men will continue to languish in
a bleak situation.
"The Bush administration claims that only it can
decide the Uighurs' fate, but has created a
situation that makes any fair resolution
impossible. The trail of damage wreaked by the
Bush administration on the lives of these men and
their families, already devastating, is now even
longer. The Bush legacy will forever be
inextricably linked with willful violation of the
human rights of people who, in this case even the
government agrees, pose no danger."
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace
Prize-winning grassroots activist organization
with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists
and volunteers in more than 150 countries
campaigning for human rights worldwide. The
organization investigates and exposes abuses,
educates and mobilizes the public, and works to
protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth
and dignity are denied.
For more information, please visit
www.amnestyusa.org.
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