In this image reviewed by the US Military, a guard tower is visible behind a razor-wire fence, at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, in Cuba, in July 2008. Hearings began Thursday for six Algerians who are fighting their detention at Guantanamo Bay -- the first such challenge in a federal court since the war-on-terror US prison opened in 2002.(AFP/POOL/File/Randall Mikkelsen)
From New York Times:
After the first hearing on the government’s evidence for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled on Thursday that five of the prisoners are not being lawfully held and ordered their release.
The case, involving six Algerians detained in Bosnia in 2001, was an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, which critics have long argued swept up innocent men and low-level foot soldiers along with high-level and hardened terrorists.
The hearings for the Algerian men, in which all evidence was heard in proceedings closed to the public, were the first in which the Department of Justice presented its full justification for holding specific detainees since the Supreme Court ruled in June that Guantánamo detainees have a constitutional right to contest their imprisonment in habeas corpus suits.
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