Thursday, February 22, 2007

Guantanamo Bay detainees cases in the news

We have posted a few times on Guantanamo Bay on this blog, but I just ran into the latest information on the court fight (thanks to the Government News for Montana Blog).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard the case Lakhdar Boumediene vs. George Bush and released their opinion yesterday. The 60-page opinion finds that detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts. This case will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court, who ruled that military commissions violated U.S. law and the Geneva convention last June (for more information, see the blog posting).

Want to learn more? Check out the Washington Post article "Guantanamo Detainees Lose Appeal."

1 comment:

  1. "We have posted a few times on Guantanamo Bay on this blog, but I just ran into the latest information on the court fight (thanks to the Government News for Montana Blog)."

    I think it's wonderful that different libraries are reading each other's blogs and using that information to benefit their user community.

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