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News » China Adds to Pressure on Pakistan to Deal With Militants |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, April 10, 2009 | Washington is not the only ally calling on Islamabad to take action against militants based in its tribal areas along the Afghan border. Now, according to a prominent Pakistani politician, Beijing is calling on the Pakistani government to deal with militants based there and allegedly plotting attacks in China later this year.
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News » China Executes Muslim Separatists |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, April 10, 2009 | China has just executed two Muslim separatists who were convicted of attacking a police station in the nation’s rebellious northwest in the run up to the opening of last summer’s Beijing Olympic Games. The Daily Telegraph of London reports that, “the attack in the Silk road city of Kashgar in the far northwestern province of Xinjiang left 17 dead, including many policemen, and prompted a major security crackdown with armored cars being deployed outside Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium.”
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News » Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo to Petition Supreme Court |
| Posted By maarip.org on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | President Obama recently reaffirmed his intention to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within a year. But lawyers for Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo are not waiting, and plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene on their clients' behalf. The attorneys want the Supreme Court to review a recent federal appeals court decision that blocked the release of the Chinese nationals, known as Uighurs. No charges have been brought against the Uighur detainees, but just where to settle them remains an open and thorny question.
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News » James Millward: Regarding the Guantanamo Uyghurs |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, February 27, 2009 | I never thought I’d see “Free the Uighurs” on the editorial pages of major U.S. newspapers, but there it was last Thursday in the Washington Post (Editorial, February 19, 2009, p. A14) and Monday in the Los Angeles Times (Editorial, Feb. 23, 2009). Of course, the editorial was not discussing Uyghurs in China, but the seventeen Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo, whom a federal appeals court ruled could be brought to the U.S.
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News » James Millward: Regarding the Guantanamo Uyghurs |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, February 27, 2009 | the seventeen Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo, whom a federal appeals court ruled could be brought to the U.S. only by an act of the executive branch, not the courts. The Post urged the Obama administration to do the right thing by these men, whom the Bush administration acknowledged years ago were not “enemy combatants” but whom it could neither send back to China nor find a third country willing to take.
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News » James Millward: Regarding the Guantanamo Uyghurs |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, February 27, 2009 | but the seventeen Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo, whom a federal appeals court ruled could be brought to the U.S. only by an act of the executive branch, not the courts. The Post urged the Obama administration to do the right thing by these men, whom the Bush administration acknowledged years ago were not “enemy combatants” but whom it could neither send back to China nor find a third country willing to take.
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News » U.S., China Debate Over Uighur Gitmo Detainees |
| Posted By maarip.org on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | Morning Edition, February 20, 2009 · Efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to close down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay came under more pressure Wednesday, as a federal appeals court overturned a district court ruling that would have released 17 Chinese Muslim detainees into the United States.
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