WASHINGTON (AFP) – The last five Uighur Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp are to have a court hearing next week to ask for their release on US soil after nearly a decade of detention, judicial sources said Thursday.

After a two-year legal battle, a three-member panel of the US Court of Appeals in Washington ordered an April 22 hearing at which lawyers for each of the men will be allowed to speak for up to 15 minutes, court sources said.

The five men are part of an original group of 22 Uighurs arrested at the end of 2001 in the mountains of Afghanistan, and accused at the time of having Al-Qaeda ties following the September 11 attacks on the United States.

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