 On October 31, 2009 "Edham Mamet", Ahmad Tourson, Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman, Anwar Hassan, Dawut Abdurehim and Adel Noori were released and transferred to Palau.On June 29, 2015, Nathan Vanderklippe, reporting in "The Globe and Mail", wrote that all the Uyghurs had quietly left Palau.The "Globe" confirmed that Palau's agreement to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments.