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Guantanamo guards accused of seizing private legal documents
Source: Reuters
Guantanamo guards accused of seizing private legal documents
By Tom Ramstack
FORT MEADE, Maryland | Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:14pm EDT
(Reuters) - U.S. military guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility improperly seized private legal documents from five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 attacks, defense lawyers said in a pretrial hearing on Tuesday.
The attorneys accused Guantanamo guards of taking legal papers stamped "privileged" from the detainees' cells despite a court order forbidding the seizure of confidential attorney-client documents.
"From time to time at least, it's just been ignored," said attorney David Nevin, who represents Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks in 2001.
The five defendants are charged with terrorism, hijacking and nearly 3,000 counts of murder and could be executed if they are convicted in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
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By Tom Ramstack
FORT MEADE, Maryland | Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:14pm EDT
(Reuters) - U.S. military guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility improperly seized private legal documents from five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 attacks, defense lawyers said in a pretrial hearing on Tuesday.
The attorneys accused Guantanamo guards of taking legal papers stamped "privileged" from the detainees' cells despite a court order forbidding the seizure of confidential attorney-client documents.
"From time to time at least, it's just been ignored," said attorney David Nevin, who represents Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks in 2001.
The five defendants are charged with terrorism, hijacking and nearly 3,000 counts of murder and could be executed if they are convicted in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/22/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE99L15220131022
