Berlin - The German government on Saturday criticised the US for providing insufficient information about Guantanamo Bay prisoners proposed for release and resettlement in Germany.

In a newspaper interview to be published Sunday, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble complained of a lack of information out of Washington.

"The documents we have received from Washington are not enough to make the legal decision regarding admission in any individual case," Schaeuble told German Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

The minister said he would check "each case individually," to make sure "no danger emanates from these people," as well as seeking confirmation that they could not be resettled in the US and had "a connection to Germany."

The Interior Minister of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, opposes the sending to Germany of Uighur detainees from China held in Guantanamo, Bild reported.

Herrmann told the paper that security intelligence showed seven of the nine Uighurs reportedly being considered for resettlement in Germany had been trained in camps of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and had contacts to militant Islamist organisations.

"We don't need those kind of people in Germany," Hermann told the newspaper, adding that US demands were unreasonable.

Of around 240 prisoners still held without charge at the US military camp for enemy combatants, reportedly 50 cannot be sent to their homelands because of the danger they may be tortured.

US President Barack Obama had pledged to close Guantanamo Bay detention camp by January 2010. Washington hopes that European allies will help give some of the former detainees a new home. (dpa)