Comments on: Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs

By: LT Saloon | Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:10:45 +0000

[...] the United States, if they cannot be repatriated, lies with the president, with lawmakers, with the Justice Department and judges in the Court of Appeals and numerous media [...]

By: Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:31:18 +0000

[...] to its eternal shame, followed suit, backing a ruling by the Court of Appeals, which overturned the lower court ruling, and hurled the Uighurs back into [...]

By: Six Uighurs Go To Palau; Seven Remain In Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:23:35 +0000

[...] Bush administration appealed, and, when President Obama took office, he followed the same line, failing to take the opportunity to bring the Uighurs to the States, which would have demonstrated [...]

By: Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:55 +0000

[...] by Judge Ricardo Urbina a year ago, and whose plight I have written about extensively (particularly here and here) — and the others are an Algerian, Sabir Lahmar, whose release was ordered last [...]

By: 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:11:07 +0000

[...] Court Judge Ricardo Urbina last October, by backing the Court of Appeals in its decision to overturn that ruling in February this [...]

By: Periodismo Humano » “Los presos liberados de Guantánamo deberían poder pedir una compensación”

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:17:31 +0000

[...] de Apelaciones, cuyo carácter conservador es bien conocido, por lo que no es sorprendente que lo anularan. En cualquier caso, lo más preocupante de la postura de Obama es que pone de relieve, casi más [...]

By: Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:20:51 +0000

[...] that no one in the media cared. Few reporters or editors, for example, realized the significance of the Court of Appeals’ ruling in February, in the case of the Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed Xinjiang province), which [...]

By: A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:47:27 +0000

[...] Conservative Court of Appeals — supported by President Obama’s Justice Department — overturned Judge Urbina’s ruling in February, gutting the lower courts’ ability to order the release of prisoners after successful [...]

By: Uighur Protest In Guantánamo: Photos by Andy Worthington + Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:59:37 +0000

[...] innocent men at Guantánamo was unconstitutional — but a notoriously reactionary appeals court overturned his ruling in February, and last week the Obama administration sought to prevent the Supreme Court from [...]

By: Free The Guantánamo Uighurs! by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Free The Guantánamo Uighurs! by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:21:44 +0000

[...] Department, by two appeals court judges, A. Raymond Randolph and Karen LeCraft Henderson, who reversed Judge Urbina’s ruling three months ago. Noticeably, both Henderson and Randolph (who has the dubious distinction of [...]