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Dragon

14:33 / 12.07.06

I imagine the same humane treatment with the new title.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:54 / 12.07.06

Clever. I'd like to see how long you'd have to be kept in such "humane" conditions to still believe they were worthy of the word, Dragon.

Professor Silly

15:42 / 12.07.06

I imagine the use of "humane" was intended as sarcasm...which begs the question, when will sarcasm becomes easier to communicate online?

I agree with the sentiment though--they'll probably treat them the same and just call it something different. The real trick would seem unlimited access by groups such as the red cross/red crescent and/or amnesty international.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:45 / 12.07.06

Dragon, could you possibly manage slightly longer and more engaged posts, please?

So, now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the trial system proposed by the White House is illegal, what's the plan. The lawyer who succesful represented Hamdan is in favour of using the Courts Martial - that is, in effect, along with the Geneva Convention, treating the prisoners as if they were actual combatants of a foreign power, rather than "enemy combatants" as a phrase to weasel out of the Geneva Convention.

Article here.

elene

10:30 / 09.08.06

The International Herald Tribune discusses "several hours of Senate testimony last week by the chief lawyers of the armed services" concerning the issue of military commissions to try the inmates of Guantánamo Bay. Along with criticism of the basic rules the Bush administration would like to apply to such commissions, and the proposed use of classified and coerced evidence and of hearsay, that we've already mentioned here, the article also informs us the administration is set on

Defining crimes: It's hard to believe, but the administration wants Congress to allow the secretary of defense to invent crimes for which prisoners may be tried. Naturally, the military lawyers dismissed that notion out of hand.

Yes, Donald H. Rumsfeld wants to be the one who defines the crimes. He's the definer!

Tsuga

22:22 / 20.11.08

Judge frees Guantanamo prisoners.
In the first hearing on the government’s justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release.

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