Australia Pressed to Take Uighurs
The U.S. has asked Australia to take in six of the Uighurs still held at Guantanamo Bay. From BBC:
US President Barack Obama has asked the Australian government to accept a group of Chinese Muslim detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
[...]It is the first time Australia has been approached by the Obama administration over the Uighurs. Two requests by the Bush administration were turned down.
[...]The 17 Uighurs held at the prison camp are among a group captured in Afghanistan in 2001, and cleared for release in 2004. Albania took in five of the ethnic Chinese group in 2006 but has been unwilling to take more.
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