Ethics

Judge Orders Release of Chinese Muslim Detainees

By Ed Brayton

The New York Times reports:

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to immediately release 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held for seven years at Guantánamo Bay, and to allow them to stay in the United States, because they are no longer considered enemy combatants.

The ruling, handed down by Federal District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, marked the first time that any United States court rejected government arguments and ordered the release of detainees from Guantánamo Bay, an American naval base in Cuba, since the detention center there opened in 2002.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).