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Guantanamo Bay release overturned | |
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A US federal appeals court has rejected the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees onto US soil, reports say. | |
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. | |
China has requested their return, but the US will not send them home for fear they will be persecuted. | |
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. |