October 8 2008
Reuters
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District Judge Ricardo Urbina gave his ruling at a hearing to consider the appeals by members of the Uighur ethnic group, who are seeking their release from the military prison and asking to go to the
He said there was no evidence that the detainees, who have been held at Guantánamo for nearly seven years, were enemy combatants or a security risk, and said that the
The Bush administration had argued that federal judges do not have the authority to order the release of the detainees into the
Lawyers for the prisoners said the ruling marked the first time that a federal court had ordered the release into the
The Uighurs remain at the prison even though the
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