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Pentagon Attempts To Sidestep Guantanamo Ruling

HeadlineJul 08, 2004

The Pentagon has announced new regulations pertaining to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay in an attempt to keep the detainees out of U.S. courts. This comes a week after the Supreme Court ruled the detainees have a right to challenge their detention. The Pentagon announced yesterday it will soon hold hearings for each of the nearly 600 detainees at Guantanamo Bay and give detainees a chance to challenge their detention before a newly formed military tribunal called the Combative Status Review Tribunal. The detainees would not be allowed access to lawyers at the proceedings. The Center For Constitutional Rights, which brought the Guantanamo case to the Supreme Court, criticized the Pentagon’s announcement. Attorney Jeffrey Fogel said “Without access to a lawyer the Supreme Court’s decision in Rasul would be meaningless.” Human Rights Watch also criticized the move. A representative said “While the Geneva Conventions start with the presumption of greatest protection for the combatant … here it is the reverse — they presume a detainee is an enemy combatant and expect him to disprove it.”

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