VISIT OF CHINESE MUSLIM LEADER

Exiled Chinese Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer will travel to Palau to visit six fellow Uighurs released from Guantanamo Bay. The six detainees arrived in Palau as part of US President Barack Obama’s drive to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Palau President Johnson Toribiong said three members of the World Uighur Congress would be arriving in the country to visit the six men, possibly as soon as next week. Mampimin Ala, the translator for the six former detainees, confirmed that Kadeer, the US-based head of the congress, would be among the visitors. Kadeer, who is labelled a criminal by China, is also expected to meet Toribiong to discuss the future of her fellow Uighurs.