US top Court allows Gitmo appeals

The ruling concerns a 2006 law backed by President Bush and approved by Congress, then controlled by Republicans. That law denied to terror-related detainees what are known as habeas corpus rights, the right of individuals to challenge their imprisonment. Deborah Lutterbeck reports

Reuters | June 12, 2008

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