23.11.07
Following up on my exclusive report yesterday about the former Guantánamo detainee Adel Abdul Hakim and his application for permanent asylum in Sweden, his lawyer Sabin Willett, who first alerted me to Adel’s story, has kindly allowed me to reproduce a talk that he gave to the Swedish Helsinki Committee’s War & Peace Seminar in […]
22.11.07
On Tuesday November 20, Adel Abdul Hakim, a former Guantánamo detainee from Xinjiang province in the People’s Republic of China, took another step towards reconstructing his shattered life by applying for asylum in Sweden. The 33-year old, an ethnic Uyghur from a state where the repression of his people is widespread, made his claim for […]
21.10.07
In the Washington Post, Jonathan Finer updates the sad story of five Uyghurs –- Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province, which borders Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan –- who were released from Guantánamo in May 2006. The five men –- and 13 of their compatriots, who remain in Guantánamo –- were all captured by enterprising Pakistani villagers […]
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