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...will get an annual review, helping blunt criticism that prisoners are being held in total legal limbo. Officials have also formally charged two captives in preparation for the first military tribunals, suggesting some due process is on the horizon. Several captives in Guantanamo have met with lawyers, as have Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla, two U.S. citizens held as enemy combatants in South Carolina. Their cases are set to be heard next week. Administration critics still say the legal handling of terrorism suspects amounts to a constitutional coup. Bush's lawyers, however, only need to worry about winning over...
...Supreme Court last week agreed to review whether the President has the power to hold Yaser Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, without charges or the right to consult a lawyer--as he has been held for two years in a naval brig in South Carolina. Now, sources tell TIME, five of the Pentagon's own lawyers, from its Office of Military Commissions, plan to file a Supreme Court brief challenging Bush's authority to try foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay in military tribunals only, barring their access to federal court...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft--so often at odds with civil libertarians--going soft? It might seem that way to those watching recent actions in the war on terrorism. Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan and held without charges for two years, last week was finally allowed to meet with a lawyer for the first time. Australian David Hicks became the first of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to gain access to lawyers, one military and one from Australia. Meanwhile, the chief author of Ashcroft's controversial Patriot Act, Viet Dinh, a former Justice official...
...federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Padilla must be allowed to meet with his lawyers in order to challenge his enemy-combatant status. But the government maintains that no court has the authority to review that classification. Federal prosecutors have taken a similar position in the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Louisiana-born man who came into U.S. custody after he was captured in Afghanistan, allegedly fighting for the Taliban. He has been declared an enemy combatant as well, held in a Navy prison in Virginia and prevented from seeing attorneys...
...executions were preceded by grisly bouts of torture, according to family members who visited the arrested men in prison before their deaths. Rasheed Kokasv said his brother was forced to watch guards rape a woman prisoner, an acquaintance of his. Adnan Yaser, 22, received electric shocks to his genitals, according to his uncle, Aessa Bedan Sahee. "When we saw him, he already was finished," said Sahee. "The government was watching us, so we couldn't tell anyone about this or we would've been arrested ourselves...