Federal Courts Reject Virtually All Habeas Petitions from Gitmo: Study

A new study suggests that the federal courts have stopped granting habeas corpus petitions from Guantanamo detainees, writes Clive Stafford Smith.

Published May 13 2012 4:45AM EDT

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Upon taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama pledged to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay within the year. We all know how that turned out.

Now, a decade into the sad experiment that is Guantánamo, we discover that the United States—supposedly a nation of laws—isn’t simply holding prisoners year after...

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Federal Courts Reject Virtually All Habeas Petitions from Gitmo: Study

A new study suggests that the federal courts have stopped granting habeas corpus petitions from Guantanamo detainees, writes Clive Stafford Smith.

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