Take Action: Support Freedom for Innocent Men in Guantanamo

centerforconstitutionalrights
Dear CCR Supporter,
Take Action: Support Freedom for Innocent Men in Guantanamo
In October 2008, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled that the imprisonment of 17 Uighur men at Guantánamo was illegal and that they should be released into the United States. The Uighurs, members of a persecuted Muslim minority in Western China, were sold to U.S. forces by bounty hunters. Most of them were cleared by the military of any offense in 2003, and in 2008, the U.S. government formally acknowledged that none of them is an enemy combatant. All 17 have been exonerated by both military and habeas courts, and all three branches of the government have acknowledged that the Uighurs should be released. After 7 years of illegal detention, the only safe place these men can go is the United States. Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture and other human rights groups in supporting their freedom.

The Bush administration appealed Judge Urbina's ruling to prevent the Uighurs' release into the U.S. But there has never been and never will be any legal basis or security condition that should extend the imprisonment of these innocent men a single day more. Call President Obama (202.456.1111) and Attorney General Eric Holder (202.353.1555) today to ask for the immediate release of the Uighurs in accord with Judge Urbina's ruling. Ask them to dismiss the Bush Administration's appeal of Judge Urbina's order and vacate the stay preventing the settlement of these innocent men. For more information, click here.

Stand with us against illegal detention and in support of the safe placement of the Uighurs.


Yours truly,

Annette Warren Dickerson
Director of Education and Outreach