The Pentagon announced March 6 that reporters will be barred from hearings for 14 US-held detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The hearings are scheduled to begin March 9 for the 14 men, all of whom were transferred to the Guantánamo facility last September from secret CIA prisons.Deemed “combatant status review tribunals” by the Pentagon, the hearings are intended to determine whether the prisoner can be classified as an “enemy combatant.”
The prisoners, accompanied by US government representatives rather than lawyers, will face panels comprising three officers at the hearings. Those designated as enemy combatants can be subjected to military trials at the direction of President George W. Bush. The first of these trials is slated to begin this summer.
(U.S. Dept. of Defense photo)
The hearings come in the context of last month’s US appeals court ruling denying Guantánamo detainees habeas corpus rights, and the refusal of the Bush administration to sign onto a UN treaty banning secret renditions.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman announced the tribunals with few details, such as which of the 14 men were scheduled to appear first, or an estimate of how long the process would take.
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The hearings come in the context of last month’s US appeals court ruling denying Guantánamo detainees habeas corpus rights, and the refusal of the Bush administration to sign onto a UN treaty banning secret renditions.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman announced the tribunals with few details, such as which of the 14 men were scheduled to appear first, or an estimate of how long the process would take.
MORE
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/guan-m09.shtml
Please also see:
Trials of Guantanamo suspects begin without a lawyer or reporter in sight
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2338360.ece
Pentagon closes Guantánamo Bay hearings to media
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003604964_gitmo07.html
GUANTÁNAMO DETAINEES RETURN TO SUPREME COURT FOR THIRD TIME IN CHALLENGE TO MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=XAHGniGxLD&Content=963
Why No Norad On 911?
By Douglas Herman, USAF Veteran
Exclusive to Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general75/whyno.htm