Rights advocates cheer ruling against U.S. government Guantanamo abuses, secrets
Source: examinar
A federal judge on Thursday upheld rights of detainees by blocking the U.S. government from restricting lawyers access to them and information about their cases at the nation's military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that proposed measures would violate detainees right to challenge their confinement in the courts.
Rights advocates cheer ruling against U.S. government
The government has never accepted the right of the detainees to effective legal representation, said David Remes, who represents 17 of the prisoners, including two who challenged the new restrictions.
Instead of picking fights over the detainees access to counsel, the government should focus on what really matters sending home the detainees it does not intend to prosecute.
In a 32-page opinion ( http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Counsel-Access-Decision-Amended1.pdf ) , Chief U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote that new Defense Department procedures would strip away a key provision of the detainees legal protections.
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OutNow
(862 posts)This has been a good week for liberal Democrats. But as we celebrate an outstanding convention and the likelihood that our President will be reelected, it's good to be reminded that there are still grave threats to our constitution. The current administration, unfortunately, has continued the bad policy of the Bush years by endorsing military trials and indefinite detention of people not charged with any crime.
Luckily there are organizations like the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights that continue to challenge these violations.
When you take out your checkbook to contribute to the Obama campaign, please write out another check for either
http://www.aclu.org/
or http://ccrjustice.org/
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Ooh, they're too scary to try them in the US. What a load of crap. What a stain on this nation.