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Judging detainees on the facts

Boston Globe
by Sabin Willett

11/30/08

Earlier this month, US District Judge Richard Leon ruled in the case of six Bosnians held at Guantanamo Bay. One is Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead petitioner in last summer’s Supreme Court decision restoring the rights of Guantanamo detainees to a habeas corpus hearing. So Judge Leon gave him that hearing, and Boumediene won. The judge ruled that he is not an enemy combatant. Boumediene himself was not there. He and the other Bosnians were listening at Guantanamo. When the hearing was over, the MPs switched off the monitor. Then they took Boumediene back to his isolation cell in the solitary confinement prison at Guantanamo’s Camp 6, where he remains today...

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Torture, preventive detention and the terror trials at Guantánamo

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

In the real world outside the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Barack Obama’s pledge to close Guantánamo and scrap the military commissions (the system of trials for ‘terror suspects’ that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks) has provoked a rare outburst of frenzied media coverage...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0812b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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