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US reverses Guantanamo releases Guantanamo Bay release overturned
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A US federal appeals court has overturned an earlier ruling that would have released 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees into the US, reports say. A US federal appeals court has rejected the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees onto US soil, reports say.
The men are Uighur Muslims from China's Xinjiang region who were picked up in Afghanistan in 2001. A US judge ruled last year that the 17 Uighurs - Chinese Muslims - were no longer enemy combatants and should be released into the United States.
A US judge ruled last year that they were no longer enemy combatants and should be released. China has requested their return, but the US will not send them home for fear they will be persecuted.
China has requested their return, but the US will not send them home for fear they will be persecuted there. No other country has agreed to take the men, who have been detained since they were picked up in Afghanistan in 2001.
The appeals court said that only immigration officials, not judges, could decide who entered the US, Associated Press news agency said.
Albania has taken in five other Uighur men who were held at Guantanamo Bay.