Two ethnic Uighurs from China freed from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay have arrived in Switzerland, Swiss authorities said on Wednesday, after the two were granted asylum despite China's opposition.
The Swiss federal government and local authorities in the northern Swiss canton of Jura said the two men, who were not named, arrived on Tuesday. "The two Uighurs with Chinese citizenship, who were granted admission for humanitarian reasons by Switzerland, have arrived in canton Jura," the federal government said in a statement. China had warned after Switzerland formally decided to take in the two ethnic Uighurs last month that the move would "surely undermine" bilateral relations. |