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China demands US hands over Uighurs

Published on 11 June 2009 - 5:01pm

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China is demanding that the United States hand over 17 Chinese prisoners currently held in the Guantánamo Bay detention centre.

Beijing is fiercely opposed to Washington's plan to send the 17 members of China's predominantly Muslim Uighur minority to the Pacific island nation of Palau. For some time, The US has been trying to find countries willing to admit the Uighurs, who were taken prisoner in Afghanistan. Washington does not want to send the 17 back to China because they might be tortured there.

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Hiram 11 June 2009 - 9:43pm

Beijing should be and has a right to be fiercely opposed to the US not turning over it's citizens to them. If their citizens are involved in crimes (terrorism) as the US has declared, then the US should send them back to China. In the US, there are laws that punish American citizens for comitting crimes outside of it's borders. Why doesn't China have the same right to arrest it's citizens who commit crimes outside it's borders. China needs to file warrants of arrest through Interpol and demand the 17 prisoners be turned over to them. How china treats their prisoners is China's business.