a marmoset's secret life....

While I’m aware…

littleorphanammo:

…that the shuttering of anonymous blogs on Tumblr is of the utmost importance to everyone in the world, and it’s in our best interests to talk it into the cold, frozen ground of the North I was thinking that this is also kind of important. Maybe.

Guantanamo Bay release overturned

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 wants to put the men on trial for alleged separatist activities and said any country that takes them in would be harbouring terrorists…

…There are approximately 250 detainees still at the prison and the 17 Uighurs had been expected to be some of the first released under President Obama.

The decision by District Judge Ricardo Urbina last October that the 17 men should be released into the US angered the White House of then-President George Bush.

The Bush administration said their release into the US would have posed a security risk and set a precedent for the release of other detainees onto American soil….The 17 have been in Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years

(I want to read this properly tomorrow)