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trailmonkee

(2,681 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:56 AM Sep 2012

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.


Read more: http://www.examiner.com/article/rights-advocates-cheer-ruling-against-u-s-government-guantanamo-abuses-secrets

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Rights advocates cheer ruling against U.S. government Guantanamo abuses, secrets (Original Post) trailmonkee Sep 2012 OP
This has been a good week, but... OutNow Sep 2012 #1
Shut down Guantanamo, you chicken shits! Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #2

OutNow

(862 posts)
1. This has been a good week, but...
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:58 PM
Sep 2012

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)
2. Shut down Guantanamo, you chicken shits!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:33 PM
Sep 2012

Ooh, they're too scary to try them in the US. What a load of crap. What a stain on this nation.

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