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The World Today: New Guantanamo Bay challenge for President Obama
This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio.
ELEANOR HALL: In the United States the Obama administration has been reminded of just how difficult its plan to shut down the Guantanamo bay detention centre will be.
17 people from the Uighur minority in north-west China have been held at the centre since 2002. Now a United States court has ruled that while their indefinite detention is grossly unfair, it has no power to order their release.
