Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Human Right
"As we approach Boumediene's anniversary, many prisoners have
'won' their habeas cases, but few have been released. The
Judicial Branch may hold hearings; it may even issue vague and
unenforceable exhortations to diplomacy. But that is all. It has
become the hortatory branch. Something has gone awry."
----- Text from a June 5 appeal to the Supreme Court on behalf
of 17 Uighurs. The U.S. government has determined that the
Chinese Muslims are not "enemy combatants," but they remain in
detention at Guantánamo.
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/ct/0pceETp1LmdR/
"If none of the U.S. states are ready to take in Guantánamo
inmates, then you will have to explain to the European public
why the rules for Europe should be different from those in the
U.S."
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'won' their habeas cases, but few have been released. The
Judicial Branch may hold hearings; it may even issue vague and
unenforceable exhortations to diplomacy. But that is all. It has
become the hortatory branch. Something has gone awry."
----- Text from a June 5 appeal to the Supreme Court on behalf
of 17 Uighurs. The U.S. government has determined that the
Chinese Muslims are not "enemy combatants," but they remain in
detention at Guantánamo.
http://action.
"If none of the U.S. states are ready to take in Guantánamo
inmates, then you will have to explain to the European public
why the rules for Europe should be different from those in the
U.S."
Monday, June 8, 2009
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