Judge: Bagram prisoners can challenge detention

[kpete]

Source: Salon

Politics
Judge: Bagram prisoners can challenge detention
By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writer


Apr 2nd, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ruled on Thursday that prisoners in the war on terror can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention at a military air base in Afghanistan.

U.S. District Judge John Bates turned down the United States' motion to deny the right to three foreign detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their detention in court. But the government had argued that it did not apply to those in Afghanistan.

Bates said the cases were essentially the same and he quoted the Supreme Court ruling repeatedly in his judgment and applied the test created by it to each detainee. It is the first time a federal judge has applied the ruling to detainees in Afghanistan.

Bates considered the requests of four detainees asking to be released, but he reserved judgment on one detainee, Haji Wazir, because he is an Afghan citizen and releasing him could create "practical obstacles in the form of friction with the host country." He ordered Wazir and the government to file memos addressing those issues.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2009/04/02/D97ADTJO1_terror_detainees/index.html

[Jefferson23]

1. K&R, Excellent!

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. USA has been battling the Middle East for 2, - TWO decades with illegal wars and sanctions

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Iran was of interest so the USA armed and convinced Saddam to make war on Iran.

That didn't pan out too good, so then the USA decided to make war on IRAQ!

even pushed successfully for the hanging of Saddam who was their puppet for a decade or so . .

NOW, the USA has over a dozen bases, and a couple of "fortresses" inside Iraq, the Green Zone and that almost billion dollar "embassy",

which is really just a fortress in someone else's' country.

USA is still in Japan/Germany, etc., after half a century.

They will still be in Iraq 50 years from now unless someone drops the USA from its superpower status/capability.

USA don't LEAVE - they occupy - they STAY.

POW and the Geneva Convention are obsolete ideas to the USA.

IRC (Red Cross) has been denied access to MANY of the USA's detention centres.

WHY? - because they do not want the proof to the World of their inhumane treatments to other humans.

It's that simple.

The USA will just keep trying to find other places out of sight of the masses to do their abusive interrogation/torture tactics.

That's how Empires work - they are "Above the Law"

get used to it

(sigh)

[GuyJello]

3. Good. The Bush and Obama admin. argued that they were not entitled to habeas corpus

Victory for justice.