Court grants evidence to lawyers for Guantanamo
Published: Sunday, 22 July, 2007, 02:08 AM Doha Time
WASHINGTON: A federal appeals court on Friday ruled lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners should have access to nearly all government evidence so they can challenge detainees’ designation as “unlawful enemy combatants.”
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in Washington was a blow to the Bush administration’s attempt to limit the lawyers’ access to only the evidence presented to a US military tribunal that made the determinations.
The ruling came on the same day President George W Bush ordered the CIA to comply with Geneva Conventions against torture in dealing with detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and secret CIA prisons elsewhere.
“Contrary to the position of the government, the record on review consists of all the information a tribunal is authorised to obtain and consider,” the court ruling stated.
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