Word: rasul
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...project came to a halt. Decades of war and neglect ensued, and the power plant fell into disrepair. By the time U.S. engineers returned to the powerhouse in 2002, it was squeezing out just 3 MW, and even that only because of the efforts of the head Afghan engineer, Rasul Baqi. He and the few remaining engineers improvised, hammering crude approximations of broken parts out of scrap metal and piecing together electrical lines with barbed wire. He never missed a day of work, he says, not even during the worst of the fighting, when the mujahedin stood off against...
...case, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, builds on the landmark 2004 decision Rasul v. Bush, in which the Supreme Court declared that Guantanamo detainees could exercise habeas corpus in Federal courts. Despite the court’s ruling, the administration has passed legislation that creates obstacles to the petitions of “enemy combatants.” The current Al Odah case challenges such legislation...
...right of prisoners to know the charges against them and the right to receive a fair and speedy trial. While the Guantánamo detainees are not American citizens, in 2004 the Supreme Court held that this standard is also applicable to the Guantánamo detainees. In Rasul v. Bush, the Court explicitly denied that Bush administration could rightfully hold the detainees indefinitely without charge. Nonetheless, the U.S. government has been unacceptably slow in bringing the detainees to trial. It has been nearly three years since the Rasul ruling, and the detainees have now been held in Guant?...
Three such prisoners were British nationals. Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul had gone to Pakistan for a wedding. Their timing was unfortunate: September 2001. Their itinerary was disastrous: they wandered into Afghanistan and, through a series of wrong turns, were rounded up with Taliban soldiers. In vain they pleaded their innocence to their captors (Afghan, British and U.S.). Soon, as they tell it in this mixture of interviews and re-enactments, they were off to Gitmo for two years of physical, psychological and religious abuse. In 2004 they were released, without charges or apologies...
...innocence of Guantanamo’s inmates. Terrorists must be brought to justice, but before a suspect is deemed a terrorist and imprisoned indefinitely, he must be given access to a trial in order to satisfy the Geneva Convention and the Supreme Court’s June 2004 decision Rasul v. Bush. Complicating matters further are allegations of prisoner torture at Guantanamo. Rumsfeld and other officials have acknowledged that forceful interrogation and force-feeding of detainees, which many human rights activists consider torture, have occurred at Guantanamo. Meanwhile, Amnesty International issued a report last May that was sharply critical...