Guantanamo case ruling
IN A rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal judge in the United States yesterday ordered the release in the US of 17 Chinese Muslims from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
District judge Ricardo Urbina made the ruling at a hearing to consider appeals by members of the Uighur ethnic group, who are seeking release and asking to come to the US.
The judge said there was no evidence the detainees, who have been held at Guantanamo for nearly seven years, were a security risk, and that the US constitution prohibited indefinite detention without cause.
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