China has warned the German government against accommodating Chinese Uighur Guantanamo Bay prisoners, saying they should face justice in their own country, according daily Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday. The prisoners, who belong to the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uighur group from Central Asia and the ...
Life After Guantanamo: Why the Media’s Happy-Ending Narrative Is Totally Bankrupt
"From Gitmo to Paradise!" So came the news via MSNBC last week, echoing the upbeat tone of so many covering the sudden transfer of four Uighur prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Bermuda. Broadcasting images of beaming bearded men in bucolic surroundings, the happy-ending narrative offered by the ...