Finland Turns Down US Request
A group of 15 Chinese Muslims, or Uighur, being held in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are still being kept at the prison, although they had been cleared for release nearly two years ago. The Washington Post reports that the US does not know what to do with the prisoners. Experts believe that if they were sent to China, they could face torture or execution. The US has asked about 20 countries, including Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey to give them asylum.
Johanna Suurpää, head of the human rights policy unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, confirmed on Thursday that Finland was approached on the matter some time ago. Finland urged the United States to discuss the issue with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as Finland takes all of its quota-based refugees on the basis of proposals from that organisation. “If the proposal had come from them, we might have been able to consider it”, Suurpää says.
Source: Free Republic.
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