The Bush administration was handed another setback by the courts yesterday in how it is waging its so-called war on terror. A federal judge ruled it was unlawful for the US to try prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay using military tribunals. The judge ruled the detainees must be treated as prisoners of war and protected under conditions laid out in the Geneva Conventions. Michael Ratner, the head of the Center for Constitutional Rights said, “The refusal of the Bush Administration to apply the Geneva Conventions was a legal and moral outrage.”
Judge Rules U.S. Must Treat Gitmo Detainees as POWs
HeadlineNov 09, 2004