USA: Further information on legal concern

Index Number: AMR 51/062/2009
Date Published: 8 May 2009
Categories: USA

Seven months after a federal judge ruled their detention unlawful and ordered their immediate release into the USA, 17 Uighurs remain in indefinite detention at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 17 men have been held without charge in the base for more than seven years.