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From Gitmo to Bagram?

Gabe Rottman,
Legislative Counsel,
ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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July 19, 2007

This is very interesting. Bush appointee refuses to dismiss a habeas petition filed by detainee held not at Gitmo, but at Bagram in Afghanistan.

A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday upheld the right of a Yemeni man held as an enemy combatant at a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan to seek his freedom.The ruling is the first issued in a case filed on behalf of a foreign detainee held by the U.S. outside the country or the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. It comes less than a month after the Supreme Court said it would again consider the rights of detainees at Guantanamo in the fall.U.S. District Judge John D. Bates cited the high court’s June action as a key reason for his decision.

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