Washington--Oct 7--A federal judge ordered the Bush administration yesterday to immediately release 17 Chinese Muslims and allow them to stay in the United States, ruling that they are no longer considered enemy combatants. Federal District Judge Ricardo Urbina called the detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of the 17 prisoners - ethnic Uighurs, a restive Muslim minority in western China - unlawful, saying the Constitution prohibits indefinite imprisonment without charges.
Jesus commanded compassion for prisoners, and this action represents a thorough repudiation of the idea that foreigners can be abused like this with deprivation of international standards of human rights.