The Washington Post has a troubling story today:
A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that the continued detention of two ethnic Uighurs at the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is “unlawful,” but he decided he had no authority to order their release.[...]
Robertson wrote that the government has taken too long to arrange a release for the men, who cannot return to their Chinese homeland because they would likely be tortured or killed there. U.S. authorities have asked about two dozen countries to grant the men political asylum, but none has accepted, in part out of fear of angering China.
One would hope that these Gitmo detainees who are now effectively stateless would be offered more humane conditions that what I imagine the detainment camps provide.
Some might argue that the right thing to do would be to grant such detainees political assylum in the States. However, I suspect that the administration might be understandably resistant to allowing such folks, who now probably bear a grudge against the U.S. into the country.