Judge Refuses to Stop Guantanamo Hearings

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Judge Refuses to Stop Guantanamo Hearings

Tuesday August 3, 2004 10:31 PM


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By GINA HOLLAND

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge refused on Tuesday to stop military hearings that will decide if the Pentagon can continue to hold hundreds of terror suspects at a Navy base in Cuba.

Judge Richard Leon rejected a request from lawyers for a group of Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to halt the administrative hearings that began last week.

The hearings are to determine whether the prisoners are being held properly. More are expected this week in a process expected to take up to four months.

Human rights lawyers have argued the military panels could hurt detainees' chances eventually to win their freedom through the filing of separate lawsuits in federal court.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4382745,00.html

[gatlingforme]

1. well at least something is going right.

[TahitiNut]

2. Oh? Where?

:eyes:

[gatlingforme]

3. Oops, read that article again with more insight now and I take it back.