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Supreme Court Holds Guantanamo Detainees Can Challenge Detention
Loaded on July 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2004, page 9
On November 10, 2003, the U.S Su-preme Court agreed to consider whether 16 detainees who are suspected of al-Qaeda or Taliban connections can challenge their detention in U.S. courts. The court will not decide whether the detention of the two Britons, two Australians, and twelve Kuwaitis is legal. Instead, it ...
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Cuba,
United States of America.
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