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Gitmo lawyers to ask order be tossed
Associated Press
Published September 23, 2007
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Attorneys for Guantanamo Bay detainees will ask a judge to rescind a ruling that created a new hurdle for some lawyers seeking to visit their clients at the prison in Cuba. In Thursday's ruling, District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina in Washington dismissed 16 lawsuits challenging the indefinite confinement of dozens of men. In an e-mail to lawyers, the Justice Department said Friday that the ruling invalidated an order that establishes rules for contact with detainees. It warned attorneys that they will be cut off from their clients unless they file new suits under a 2005 law and agree to tighter restrictions on visits and letters to detainees. Attorney visits provide one of the few sources of information about detainees at Guantanamo, an isolated Navy base in Cuba where the U.S. holds about 340 men under extremely tight security on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Most of the prisoners are held without charge and have filed petitions of habeas corpus, a legal challenge to their confinement. Last year, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, which stripped all detainees of the right to file habeas petitions.
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by Carlos Milan
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09/23/07 01:45 PM
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Let's face, it the Bush Administration and the Republican Party have a direct line with God and in doing so can control the fate of any human being on this planet, American citizen or not. Habeas Corpus, like the Geneva Convention are so quaint.
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