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Supreme Court Says No to Trial by Military Commission for Gitmo Prisoners
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2006
by Matthew T. Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2006, page 27
Filed under:
Sentencing,
Habeas Corpus,
International Law,
Political Prisoners (International),
Federal Legislation,
Military Prisons.
Location:
District of Columbia.
On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court held that prisoners being held in the military concentration
camp prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo), could not be tried by the special military
tribunals set up by President Bush in a comprehensive military order dated November 13, 2001
(the Order). See 66 ...
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