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Amnesty International Extremely Disappointed by Appeals Court Decision to Stop Release of Uighur Detainees
October 21, 2008Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's decision on Monday, October 20 to block the release of the 17 Uighur detainees from the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Their release had been ordered by the lower District Court on October 7. Full release