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Holder should reject military commissions and indefinite detention policy

By Andrew Wood

Leili Kashani [Education and Outreach Associate, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights]: "On April 14, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer a range of questions about the Department of Justice. While CCR was glad to see that Holder has not ruled out trying the alleged 9/11 plotters in New York and in federal courts, we were dismayed that he did not reject the irredeemably flawed military commissions and an ongoing policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial that only serves to move Guantánamo to a new location and give it a new name.Military commissions are politically driven

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).