Tuesday, December 12, 2006
New Links
We are building a Documents and Resources section for the blog. It is located on the column of links at the right of the webpage. So far, we've posted links to the Mark and Joshua Denbeaux's Seton Hall School of Law Report on Guantánamo Detainees, the Center For Constitutional Rights' Faces of Guantánamo and CCR's report on hunger strikes.
Chicago Council of Lawyers Rejects Key Provisions of Military Commissions Act
The Chicago Council of Lawyers has issued a statement of legislative priorities relating to enemy combatants and persons subject to extraordinary rendition.
The Council urges the new Congress to repeal any and all provisions the Military Commissions Act that deny detainees their right to petition for a writ of habeas corpus and strip the courts of jurisdiction over any claims relating to the “detention, transfer, treatment, trial or conditions of confinement" of enemy combatants.
The full statement can be read here.
The Council urges the new Congress to repeal any and all provisions the Military Commissions Act that deny detainees their right to petition for a writ of habeas corpus and strip the courts of jurisdiction over any claims relating to the “detention, transfer, treatment, trial or conditions of confinement" of enemy combatants.The full statement can be read here.
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