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15 June 2009

7:30:00 PM
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Chinese Muslim Detainees Ask US High Court To Be Freed

Fourteen Chinese Uighurs who have been detained at Guantanamo prison without charge for seven years on Monday petitioned the Supreme Court for their release.

The case would be the first to deal with terror detainees that has come before the Supreme Court since President Barack Obama came to power in January.

The men - captured in Afghanistan - have asked for the top court to lift a bar imposed on their release by a federal court of appeals in Washington, according to the request filed on Monday.

The 14, who are members of the predominantly Muslim and Turkic-speaking Uighur minority, have been cleared of accusations that they were "enemy combatants," but legal wrangling over their fate continues. (...)

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