28 June 2004

Guantanamo suspects can use US courts


To me the issue has always been a 'do as you would be done by' matter of simple justice. If I were wrongly detained as a suspect I would like to be able to be alble to challenge it. I were correctly detained, I would like to be able to at least be tried fairly like any other criminal... and until tried, of course, I should be presumed innocent ... you can't operate a legal system on any other basis and still safeguyard the rights of suspects, indeed of ordinary citizens. Glad to see some sanity prevailing.

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