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China Keeps a Close Eye on Exiled Activists
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(March 9) -- The world got a rare glimpse at how China keeps tabs on exiled dissidents and activists Monday, when a political refugee living in Sweden was sentenced to 16 months in jail for spying on his fellow Uighurs for the Chinese state. According to press reports, 62-year-old Babur Maihesuti started gathering information on Sweden's 100-strong Uighur community -- from their travel plans to political involvement – soon after arriving in the country in 2007. Maihesuti then passed details on to Chinese spies posing as journalists and diplomats. The Stockholm court said the case, ...
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Detainees Can Be Released Into U.S.
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal judges can order detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to be released onto United States soil. The case concerns 17 Muslim refugees from the Uighur region of western China who were picked up by U.S. forces in late 2001 after fleeing a camp in the mountains of Afghanistan. The government long ago gave up trying to prove the detainees have connections to al-Qaida or the Taliban, and last year a district court judge ordered them released. The judge said the Uighurs should go free in the U.S. because they face oppression if they are returned to ...
Detainee Turns Down Guantanamo Release to Stay With Brother
By David Sessions - Politics DailyBahtiyar Mahnut, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and one of the famously stranded Uighurs, has turned down the opportunity of release to the island nation of Palau. Mahnut told his attorneys that he would remain a prisoner to look after his older brother Arkin Mahmud -- the only one of the 13 remaining Uighurs that Palau rejected. Mahmud, 45, has mental health problems that are too difficult to treat on the 177-square-mile Pacific island nation about 500 miles from the Phillppines. The brothers' current predicament is another sad chapter in the story of the Uighurs, an ...
Chinese Riots: Blame the Dame
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyWednesday's news that Chinese President Hu Jintao is bailing on the already-dubious G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, to head home should come as little surprise to those following the recent wave of riots and killings in China's western region of Xinjiang. Over the past weekend, ethnic Han Chinese clashed with the region's native Muslim Uighur minority, leaving more than 1,000 injured and at least 156 people dead. ...
From Gitmo to Bermuda: Not a Bad Upgrade
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyOh, to be a Uighur on a sunny afternoon, enjoying an ice cream treat on the beautiful island of Bermuda -- except for the part about having to endure seven years at Guantanamo. ...
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