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UYGHURS: WHEN GUANTANAMO CAN SAVE LIVES
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New York – the Hague, 25 August 2005
Last 25 March, a Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined that two Uyghurs held at Guantanamo Bay were not “enemy combatants”. At the Beginning of August, a motion was heard in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to release the two Chinese citizens currently detained at Guantanamo Bay: Abu Bakker Qassim and A’del Abdul Al Hakim.
Statement by Marco Perduca, UN Representative, Transnational Radical Party and Nicola dell'Arciprete, Assistant Secretary General, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization:
“Almost three years of interrogations and solitary confinement have ascertained that Mr. Abu Bakker Qassim and Mr. A’del Abdul Al Hakim were not engaged in any combat or terrorist operation, and do not pose any threat to the U.S. As a form of redress, it is now imperative that they are not sent back to China where they will face persecution for just being Uyghurs.
We appeal to the U.S. Government to grant some sort of “parole regime” on U.S. soil for the two former prisoners - perhaps reaching out to their fellow Uyghurs who live in America to take care of them - and to all the countries that are parties to the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees - starting from the members of the Coalition of the willing - to take into consideration the possibility of granting asylum or refugee status to all the Uyghurs currently in Guantanamo who will be not found “enemy combatants”.
It is a known and document fact that the Chinese authorities have been engaged in all forms of persecutions - from torture to deportation to forced immigration, from destruction to religious and cultural sites to the prohibition of their Turkik language - against the Uyghurs who live in the north West of the country in a territory that for a few months almost 60 years ago was known as the independent state of Eastern Turkestan.
For individuals suspected of terrorism in democratic countries there is the hope that due process can prove the accusations wrong, for people rumored to be “enemies of the State” in authoritarian regimes, there is simply no future. Democratic countries must act swiftly”
Last 25 March, a Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined that two Uyghurs held at Guantanamo Bay were not “enemy combatants”. At the Beginning of August, a motion was heard in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to release the two Chinese citizens currently detained at Guantanamo Bay: Abu Bakker Qassim and A’del Abdul Al Hakim.
Statement by Marco Perduca, UN Representative, Transnational Radical Party and Nicola dell'Arciprete, Assistant Secretary General, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization:
“Almost three years of interrogations and solitary confinement have ascertained that Mr. Abu Bakker Qassim and Mr. A’del Abdul Al Hakim were not engaged in any combat or terrorist operation, and do not pose any threat to the U.S. As a form of redress, it is now imperative that they are not sent back to China where they will face persecution for just being Uyghurs.
We appeal to the U.S. Government to grant some sort of “parole regime” on U.S. soil for the two former prisoners - perhaps reaching out to their fellow Uyghurs who live in America to take care of them - and to all the countries that are parties to the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees - starting from the members of the Coalition of the willing - to take into consideration the possibility of granting asylum or refugee status to all the Uyghurs currently in Guantanamo who will be not found “enemy combatants”.
It is a known and document fact that the Chinese authorities have been engaged in all forms of persecutions - from torture to deportation to forced immigration, from destruction to religious and cultural sites to the prohibition of their Turkik language - against the Uyghurs who live in the north West of the country in a territory that for a few months almost 60 years ago was known as the independent state of Eastern Turkestan.
For individuals suspected of terrorism in democratic countries there is the hope that due process can prove the accusations wrong, for people rumored to be “enemies of the State” in authoritarian regimes, there is simply no future. Democratic countries must act swiftly”
