Sweden grants asylum to suspected terrorist

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish immigration court yesterday granted asylum to a Chinese Muslim who was released from Guantanamo Bay after the US acknowledged "he was not a terrorist".

The court overruled the Swedish Migration Board's decision to reject Adil Hakimjan's request to stay in Sweden.

Hakimjan, an ethnic Uygur, fled to Afghanistan and was caught by US-led forces as a suspected terrorist. He and four other Uygurs were released from Guantanamo in 2006 and sent to Albania because it was the only country that was ready to take them.