The hearing will be held Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 9:00 am in Rayburn 2172 and review claims made by the Chinese government that the Uighur detainess are “terrorists" and members of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (“ETIM”).
The Subcommittee will investigate what role the Communist Chinese regime had on the apprehension and incarceration of the Uighur men and how Chinese intelligence agents were allowed to travel to Guantanamo to freely interrogate the Uighur detainees.
This week Delahunt and Subcommittee Ranking Member U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrbacher announced their strong opposition to a request by the Chinese government to return the remaining Guantanamo Uighurs back to China. To read the full letter, please click here.
DATE: June 16, 2009
TIME: 9:00 am
LOCATION: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
SUBJECT: Exploring the Nature of Uighur Nationalism: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
WITNESSES:
Panel I
Mr. Randall G. Schriver
Partner
Armitage International
(Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State and Former Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage)
Sean R. Roberts, Ph.D.
Director and Associate Professor
International Development Studies Program
Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
Dru C. Gladney, Ph.D.
President
Pacific Basin Institute
Pomona College
Panel II
Ms. Shirley Kan
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Congressional Research Service
Ms. Susan Baker Manning
Partner
Bingham McCutchen
Mr. Bruce Fein
Principal, The Lichfield Group
(Former Deputy Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan)
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