15 at Guantanamo Sue for Their Freedom
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From Times Wire Reports
Lawyers representing 15 Yemeni prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking their release.
The habeas corpus petition also asks the court in Washington to declare the prolonged, indefinite and restrictive detention of the prisoners arbitrary and unlawful under the Constitution and international law.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that foreign terrorism suspects held at the base could use the U.S. judicial system to challenge the conditions of their confinement and to seek their release.
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