Uighur (via Barack Obama’s Uighur Problem | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet)

First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in May 2006, has had his asylum claim accepted by the Swedish government.

February 20, 2009, 11:33am