Judge clears way for first military commission
- Published on 21/07/2008
In its offshore prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, the US is about to open a new chapter in its unlawful treatment of detainees in the "war on terror".
On 17 July 2008, US District Court Judge James Robertson cleared the way for the first US trial by military commission for more than half a century, when he refused to stop the trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan.
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