Friday, June 30, 2006

More grist for the mill

THE US Supreme Court has ruled that the military commissions set up by the Bush Administration to try Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Australian David Hicks, are illegal and have to be abandoned.

The court's 5-3 ruling said that the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war had to be applied to proceedings against all detainees at Guantanamo.

The court ruled that the Bush Administration's position that detainees held at Guantanamo and elsewhere are illegal combatants and not covered by the Geneva Conventions is unconstitutional.

UPDATE:

On the same theme -

Britain: The Government's anti-terrorism laws suffered a major setback yesterday when a High Court judge quashed control orders on six suspected Iraqi terrorists who had been under house arrest for 18 hours a day.

The ruling left the Government's control order regime in tatters and threatened a fresh confrontation between ministers and the judiciary over the interpretation of the convention.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Damn activist judges...

6/30/2006 05:32:00 am
misneach said...

so perhaps now, since the Supreme Court has ruled in such a way, we can look forward to the arrests of those in charge of creating the unconstitutional situation via the american legal concept of "command responsibility" (pbs and salon.com websites have good resources on command responsibility).

We can only dream...

6/30/2006 07:24:00 am
Cartledge said...

abi, in-bloody-deed! I suspect it was a result Bush was looking for.
misneach, yes, but the dream alone is worth it. It is akin to the US not talking to terrorists, which raises a interesting question about inner voices.

6/30/2006 07:44:00 am

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