Obama Administration Files Petition To Block Uighurs From Entering U.S., Praises Gitmo Conditions

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/30/obama-denies-uighurs-release/

The Obama administration filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Friday asking the Court to block the 17 Chinese Uighurs detained at Guantanamo from entering the United States — this, despite a court ruling last year ordering their release. The petition argues that the Uighurs “have already obtained relief” and that the government had no legal obligation to settle them in the U.S.:

Petitioners have already obtained relief. They are no longer being detained as enemy combatants, they are free to leave Guantanamo Bay to go to any country that is willing to accept them, and in the meantime, they are housed in facilities separate from those for enemy combatants under the least restrictive conditions practicable. Moreover, the government is actively seeking to resettle petitioners, and the President has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by January 22, 2010. <...>

Inaccurate in that I doubt they (government) are praising Guantanamo. Too kind in that they are still being held without charge. They are being held as to not piss China off.