Comments on: First Guantánamo Prisoner To Lose Habeas Hearing Appeals Ruling

By: What Does It Take to Get Out of Obama’s Guantanamo?

What Does It Take to Get Out of Obama’s Guantanamo? — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:17:03 +0000

[...] prisoners who have lost their habeas petitions have mounted appeals, but only one, on behalf of Belkacem Bensayah, an Algerian whose habeas petition was denied in November 2008, has begun to be heard by the Court [...]

By: Innocent Guantánamo Torture Victim Fouad al-Rabiah Is Released In Kuwait « freedetainees.org

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:40:52 +0000

[...] Shame (August 2009), No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings (September 2009), First Guantánamo Prisoner To Lose Habeas Hearing Appeals Ruling (September 2009), A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was [...]

By: Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy « freedetainees.org

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:08:33 +0000

[...] District Court Judge Richard Leon, a no-nonsense appointee of President George W. Bush, granted the habeas corpus petitions of five of the six men, including Lahmar, after concluding that the government had provided no credible evidence that, as was alleged in place of the bomb plot, they intended to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against US forces. The sixth man, Belkacem Bansayah, was ruled to be legally detained as an “enemy combatant,” based on the government’s claims that he was “link[ed] to al-Qaeda and, more specifically, to a senior al-Qaeda facilitator,” although he is currently appealing the ruling. [...]