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A man brought to Bermuda from a US jail in Cuba has had his bid for British citizenship blocked – by an almost four-year-old speeding ticket. Salahidin Abdulahad applied for British Overseas Territory citizenship in 2018 alongside three other Uighur ...

The Chinese Government has insisted that the mass incarceration facilities in Xinjiang province in the far north-west of the country should not be called re-education or concentration camps, but rather vocational skills training centres. To read the ...

The violent suppression ten years ago on July 5 of a protest march in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in western China, was a pivotal moment in the struggle of the Uighur people to defend their rights. For the Uighurs, th...

Senior civil servant Major Marc Telemaque asked immigration officials to find a way for Bermuda to issue travel documents to the four refugee Uighurs, but was rebuffed. Major Telemaque sent a “high importance” e-mail in January 2011, the day before h...

A dossier of official correspondence about the Uighurs and their relatives has been released by the Government, ten years after the four men came to the island from Guantánamo Bay at the invitation of Ewart Brown. The e-mails reveal how Bermuda’s top...

A lawyer for Bermuda’s four Uighurs has raised concerns after the Government mistakenly released highly confidential records about the men’s relatives under public access to information. The Department of Immigration initially provided only eight rec...

Dear Sir, After reading the Khalid Wasi article about the Uighur heist by “the good doctor”, Ewart Brown, how can he write this article without mentioning him? He should know that in politics, one has to take “something to the table, to get somethin...

The secret deal to bring the four Uighurs to Bermuda from Guantánamo Bay was sealed after a meeting at the White House, according to Ewart Brown. The former premier agreed to an interview with The Royal Gazette to mark the eighth anniversary of the m...

Government House has refused a public access to information request to release correspondence about the four Uighurs who came to Bermuda from Guantánamo Bay. The Royal Gazette asked for the correspondence on January 17, but Deputy Governor Ginny Fers...

One of Bermuda’s four Uighurs is desperately pleading with British authorities to let his five-year-old son receive specialist medical treatment overseas. Abdullah Abdulqadir, who along with his son, Muhammad, remains stranded and stateless in Bermu...

Hasna Turner may just be 15, but she is already setting out to change the world. In addition to travelling to Jordan to help struggling refugees, Hasna is writing a book detailing the struggles of the Uighurs in Bermuda. “I had heard about their plig...

Five years after they were secretly smuggled into Bermuda a group of Uighurs are still no closer to being able to leave. On the anniversary of their arrival from Guantánamo Bay, the four former detainees have no passports, and the governments of the ...