 BobbyRutan says: Members of the area's Uighur community reacted to the decision with jubilation. "We won!" one attendee exclaimed after the hearing, setting off a loud cheer. Scores of detainees are challenging their detentions in federal court after winning a Supreme Court ruling in June that gave them the right to have their cases reviewed by federal judges under the legal doctrine of habeas corpus. The government suffered a major setback in June when a federal appeals court found the evidence against one Uighur to be so weak that it compared the government's legal theories to a nonsensical 19th-century poem, Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark." The court ordered the man, Huzaifa Parhat, released, transferred or offered a new military hearing. The government chose not to retry Parhat and announced it would no longer treat him as an enemy combatant. It subsequently did the same for four others and added the final 12 late last month. This is a great judicial decision, turning our country back on the path of its ideals and Constitution & civil rights laws. I'm glad to know that it will not be difficult to bring war crimes and other charges against Bush, Cheney and their cohorts -- once they leave office. Now...in two days will this court order be obeyed? Even though it's even been acknowledged by the military that these victims of injustice are not enemy combatants...they still remain in Guantanamo Bay military prison. That has to be a new low in a nation's history....having people in jail -- having some of them subject to torture and physical abuse -- violate your own laws about indefinite detention, torture, etc. --... |
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