U.S. sends 2 Uighur detainees to Switzerland

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A ensure building of Camp Delta is seen at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Sep 4, 2007.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Chinese Uighur brothers who were hold at the U.S. troops jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been eliminated to Switzerland, the U.S. Justice Department pronounced on Wednesday.

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China has demanded that the Uighurs be returned there but the U.S. supervision has pronounced it could not do so since they would face harm and has searched for months for countries peaceful to accept them.

"These detainees, who were theme to recover from Guantanamo Bay as a outcome of justice orders, had been authorized for recover by the before administration, that dynamic that it would no longer provide them as rivalry combatants," the Justice Department pronounced in a statement.

The dual men eliminated were Arkin Mahmud and Bahtiyar Mahmud, according to their lawyer. They will live in the canton of Jura in northwest Switzerland.

"After some-more than eight years of prejudicial bonds they are seeking brazen to rebuilding their lives in the free and approved nation of Switzerland," pronounced Elizabeth Gilson, their lawyer.

There are still 183 detainees at the argumentative Guantanamo prison, that President Barack Obama had affianced to close by last January. However, domestic and tactful difficulties done that deadline unfit to meet.

The Uighurs, who come from China"s mostly Muslim far-west segment of Xinjiang, were swept up by the U.S. supervision during the Afghanistan fight launched after the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

There are five Uighurs left at the Guantanamo facility. Four alternative Uighurs were resettled in Bermuda whilst Albania took five, and 6 went to the Pacific island of Palau, that has additionally offering to take the superfluous five.

Switzerland concluded last month to take the dual detainees, notwithstanding a row of parliament"s reduce residence recommending opposite usurpation the pair, citing security fears after the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Dec 25.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, modifying by Eric Beech)

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