In a common sense move the US Supreme Court reversed its decision not to allow detainees in Guantanamo Bay to have their detention examined by US courts, on the basis that they are not US citizens, perhaps because a US military lawyer has made a statement criticising the procedure set up by the administration to decide whether detainees should be held any longer.
No democratic country would be able to give the detainees a fair hearing following the administrations unlawful false arrests and torture and false imprisonment. Therefore, I welcome the US Supreme Court's decision to reverse it's early decision. In my view, it is irrelevant whether the detainees are not US citizens. It is a US administration which is in violation of international law, therefore the courts have jurisdiction.
This has got to be an American joke from the Bush administration "Honour bound to defend freedom", like detention without charge and trial? Go on try and defend it in court...
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