Uyghur prisoners at Guantanamo have long been determined to be not guilty of terrorism. But seventeen of these ethnic Muslim Chinese are still imprisoned at Guantanamo after almost eight years. Five were forcibly resettled in Albania, isolated and away from their families.
Twenty-two of Uyghers ended up in Guantanamo, five were released in mid-2006 to Albania, and the remaining seventeen continue to languish in detention because no country wants to resettle them. Sabin Willett, an attorney for the Uyghurs, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, urging them to immediately release the Uyghurs and resettle them in the United States.
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