Thursday, June 13, 2019

Supreme Court turns away appeal from longtime detainee at Guantanamo Bay - The Washington Post

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a Yemeni citizen detained as an enemy combatant for more than 17 years at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without being charged with a crime. The court turned down the petition of Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi without comment. But Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the court may soon need to take such a case to decide whether Congress’s Authorization for Use of Military Force or the Constitution permits indefinite detention.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-turns-away-appeal-from-longtime-detainee-at-guantanamo-bay/2019/06/10/3e7cc5ac-8b8e-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html

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