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Report on Status of Guantanamo Prisoners Released; Controversy Continues
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2006
by Matthew T. Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2006, page 20
Filed under:
Political Prisoners (International),
Suicides,
Military,
Military Prisons.
Location:
Cuba.
In February 2006, a report on the status of 517 prisoners being held in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba compiled by Seaton Hall law professor Mark Denbeaux, seven of his law students and attorney Joshua Denbeaux, was made public. The report, entitled The Guantanamo Detainees: The Governments …
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