WASHINGTON - October 21 - Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's decision on Monday, October 20 to block the release of the 17 Uighur detainees from the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Their release had been ordered by the lower District Court on October 7:

NEW YORK - October 8 - According to newly released military documents, the Navy applied lawless Guantánamo protocols in detention facilities on American soil. The documents, which include regular emails between brig officers and others in the chain of command, uncover new details of the detention and interrogation of two U.S. citizens and a legal resident - Yaser Hamdi, Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri - at naval brigs in Virginia and South Carolina.

WASHINGTON - October 7 - Human Rights First applauds U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina's decision today to order the release of 17 Chinese Uighers who have been detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years.

WASHINGTON - October 7 - In a courtroom packed with anti-torture activists and members of the Uigher community, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina struck a landmark blow against the Bush administration and its policy of indefinite detention at Guantánamo in Washington, DC today.

WASHINGTON - October 7 - Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement in response to the decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to allow the 17 remaining Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be released into the United States while their habeas corpus cases are decided. All these men were ruled to be non-enemy combatants by the U.S. Department of Defense: