White House Bill Challenges Provision of the Geneva Conventions
The White House is challenging the recent Supreme Court decision that the provision of the Geneva Conventions known as Common Article Three applies to detainees. Bush's draft bill asserts that the Geneva Conventions "are not a source of judicially enforceable individual rights," meaning that in the future, terror suspects like Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni held at Guantanamo whose case resulted in the Supreme Court ruling Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, cannot file lawsuits saying their Geneva Convention rights were violated.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072606C.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva+Convention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072606C.shtml
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rudkla - 26. Jul, 22:50
