Tuesday, November 09, 2004

MILITARY 'COMMISSIONS' HALTED BY FEDERAL JUDGE
"A coalition of defense lawyers and conservative military law experts hailed a decision by a federal judge halting the Bush Administration's special trials at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.
In a setback for the Bush administration, U.S. District Judge James Robertson found that detainees at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions and therefore entitled to the protections of international and military law -- which the government has declined to grant them. "
(WASHINGTON POST)

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