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Lawyers reject US ‘backflip’ on detainees
THE LAW Council of Australia has described the Pentagon’s decision to treat Guantanamo Bay detainees in accordance with the Geneva Conventions as “too little, too late”. While the…
Lawyers Weekly
THE LAW Council of Australia has described the Pentagon’s decision to treat Guantanamo Bay detainees in accordance with the Geneva Conventions as “too little, too late”.
“This is clearly a move made under the pressure of the US Supreme Court decision in Hamdan’s case that the military commission process violated the Geneva Conventions.”
“If it was genuinely concerned about the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees, the US Government would have treated its prisoners in accordance with the Geneva Conventions from the outset.” The recent gesture is “way too little, way too late”, said Bugg.
