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Discusses lack of procedural safeguards in detention and proposed military trials of alleged Taliban/Al Qaeda detainees captured in Afghanistan and held by the US in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The revelation in 2004 of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has refocused attention on the legal structures and conditions of the indefinite detention of persons in US military custody at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base in Cuba. Two features are important in this re-focus. In 2003, Major General Geoffrey Miller, the commander of Guantanamo Bay, was sent to Iraq to 'gitmoize ' (ie to apply the Guuantanamo detention management principles) to Abu Ghraib. Secondly, it has become apparent that serious human rights abuses within Us military custody are more properly seen within a context of the ascendancy of asserted US executive power in establishing an extra-legal system of classification and detention, with exceptionialism in that system to international human rights standards.

Discusses the inhumane treatment of suspected terrorists incarcerated at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, focusing on lack of legal rights for detainees, and physical abuse; 2001-04. States that more than 600 prisoners have been in the camp for nearly two years.

This study portrays the administrative detainees in one section of Ansar 3, a detention camp in the heart of the Negev desert. Ansar 3 was opened in March 1988 by the Israeli authorities to accomodate the large number of West Bankers and Gazans issued six-month administrative detention orders. The study was conducted during the end of October 1988, at which time the author was spending a six-month administrative detention at Ansar 3. It describes the educational background of the detainees, their geographical and age distribution, their socio-economic background, and gives some information about the arrest and appeals. (DÜI-Hns)

Guantanamo and rule by executive fiat -- Abuse and torture -- Guantánamo : testimony and case details -- Military commissions and the Supreme Court