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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has refused to allow the immediate release into the United States of 17 Turkic Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed Monday to keep the detainees at Guantanamo for several more weeks at the request of the Bush administration.
This month, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ordered the government to free the group of Muslim Uighurs, who are from China. He said it would be wrong to continue holding them because they no longer are considered enemy combatants.
On Monday, the appeals court said it needed time to hear the government’s full appeal. While it is doing so, the Uighurs will stay at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
