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PhotographyThe Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its third consecutive rebuff to the Bush administration’s handling of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, ruling 5 to 4 that the prisoners there have a constitutional right to go to federal court to challenge their continued detention. [...]
Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the truncated review procedure provided by a previous law, the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, “falls short of being a constitutionally adequate substitute” because it failed to offer “the fundamental procedural protections of habeas corpus [...] The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”
— Source: New York Times
About time. You have to keep in mind that out of over 270 detainees, only 5 (!) were brought before court within the last 7 years. Which means that a lot of people are arrested for up to 7 years now without being accused of anything. Unfortunately, the Guantánamo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon.
Related postings on revelation-of-silence.com:
- Guantanamo – erster Gerichtsprozess (29.03.2007)
- illegal US prisons and torture (04.11.2005)
- UN kritisiert USA (02.11.2005)
June 27th, 2010 at 12:05
[...] were quite a few court decisions against the prison, like this one in 2008: The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its third [...]