Guantanamo may be closing but ethnic Uighurs stuck in limbo

Thursday, February 05, 2009

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    Seventeen Chinese Uighurs are in limbo between Guantanamo Bay and China (Brennan Linsley/AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama may have ordered that the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba be closed by the end of the year and the detainees either tried or freed. But for some inmates being set free does not mean being able to go home. One population in particular is stuck in limbo. Seventeen ethnic Chinese Uighurs can not be sent back to China for fears they would face persecution by their home government. But China doesn’t want them to go anywhere else, either. The Takeaway talks to George Clarke, lawyer with Miller & Chevalier, who is representing two of the 17 Chinese Uighurs in custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Guests:

George Clarke

Contributors:

Noel King and Sitara Nieves

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