Uygur detainees case reaches US Supreme Court

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court agreed this week to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the United States - over the objections of the Obama administration, Congress and the Chinese government.

The court's fourth look at the terror-suspects detention system, created by the Bush administration following the 9/11 attacks, will focus on 13 Chinese Uygurs, most of whom were cleared by the Pentagon for release in 2003. Six years later - and eight years after their capture in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001 - they remain in custody at the US naval base in Cuba.

China has long called for the prompt repatriation of Chinese terrorist suspects from Gutanamo.