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...your clients aware that Barack Obama was elected and that he wants to close Guantanamo? They are. One client, Mr. [Lakhdar] Boumediene, the lead plaintiff, has been on hunger strike for two years. Twice a day they strap him in a chair, force his head back and put about two liters of the liquid protein Ensure down a tube through his nose into his stomach. It's a very brutal procedure, but they're determined that he not fast himself to death, so they do this to him. [When he found out Obama was elected] he was so excited that...
...first federal court review of government evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, a judge ruled Nov. 20 that the Bush administration's case against five Algerians (first detained in Bosnia) was too weak to prevent their release. The hearing followed a June Supreme Court ruling giving the men the right to argue against their detention in court. In a rare move, Judge Richard Leon urged the government not to appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody...
...What are the implications for the rest of the detainees at Guantanamo? In the context of the Obama's administration's stated intention to close Guantanamo, which would involve a review of the remaining cases, this should accelerate that process...
...story of Guantanamo doesn't end with closure of the facility. What would be next on your agenda if that happened? Making sure we don't warehouse most of the prisoners in some other facility in this country and forget about them. Give these men hearings and we all abide by the result or let them go home...
...living conditions for the five detainees change because of the ruling? We've asked to have them moved to the least confined location at Guantanamo - still inside the prison complex, but in a barracks with good recreational opportunities. They should be, as much as possible, treated as free men who happened to be living in a prison environment...