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Guantanamo Detainee Update: At SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston provided this follow-up to his posts on the government's attempt to prevent U.S. entry of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees. Earlier in the week, we posted on the federal court order of Judge Urbina to release 17 Chinese Muslims, the Uighurs, into the United States for a handover to local caretakers. On Tuesday, it was noted "the government could seek a stay of the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit." Yesterday, Denniston reported on the arguments made by the detainees' lawyers against delaying the handover, and then updated his post to report that the D.C. Circuit Court had blocked entry of the Uighurs for about eight days. The Circuit Court's order can be found here...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).