Ethics

Afghan Detainees Can Challenge Detention

By Ed Brayton

Here's some very good news out of the Obama administration:

Hundreds of prisoners held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan will for the first time have the right to challenge their indefinite detention and call witnesses in their defense under a new review system being put in place this week, according to administration officials.

The new system will be applied to the more than 600 Afghans held at the Bagram military base, and will mark the first substantive change in the overseas detention policies that President Obama inherited from the Bush administration.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).