Hundreds of protesters called for Bermudian Premier Ewart Brown to step down on Tuesday and accused him of acting like a dictator in allowing four Guantanamo prisoners from China to settle on the mid-Atlantic island.

Some 600 people gathered outside Parliament in the island's capital Hamilton, waving banners and chanting "Brown must go" as they marched to the Cabinet office.

Brown emerged from the building and shouted to the booing crowd: "As some of you might know, I grew up in the protest era. This is nothing new to me. I have seen them larger and longer," he said.

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Four former Guantánamo Bay detainees are getting used to their newfound freedom after seven years' captivity ended when Bermuda agreed to take them in as refugees.

The men are Uighurs, Muslims from the vast stretches of western China, an arid and rugged land that is a far cry from Bermuda's sandy beaches and quaint narrow streets.

"When we didn't have any country to accept us, when everybody was afraid of us … Bermuda had the courage and was brave enough to accept us," said Abdulla Abdulgadir, who at 30 is the youngest of the four. He eagerly embraced his new island home. "We are not moving anywhere," he said.