In what can be considered a miscarriage of justice the 20 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantanamo bay Cuba were captured in Afghanistan during the U.S. invasion in October of 2001 none of them were ever accused or charged with any crime involving terrorism yet they were all held for more than 10 years.
The sad reality is that a majority of those still held at Guantanamo bay were captured as part of a bounty offered by the U.S. for any suspected terrorist found in Afghanistan. 80% of them weren't terrorist they were just unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Three Chinese Muslim Uighurs have been flown to Slovakia from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the Slovak interior ministry says.
The three are now in the capital Bratislava, a ministry official told the BBC. None of them are terror suspects, the ministry stressed.
Slovakia - a member of the EU and Nato - also accepted three inmates from Guantanamo in 2010.
The US says all the Uighur prisoners have now been released from Guantanamo.
Since 2001 the prison has housed suspects detained by US forces during operations against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
"As in the case of the first transport, the persons in this transport have never been suspected nor accused of terrorism. The transport is a follow-up to the agreement of 2009 [with the US]," the Slovak ministry statement said.
The sad reality is that a majority of those still held at Guantanamo bay were captured as part of a bounty offered by the U.S. for any suspected terrorist found in Afghanistan. 80% of them weren't terrorist they were just unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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