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Judge clears way for first military commission

21 July 2008, 10:54AM

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.

Read USA: Double standards and second-class justice. Federal judge clears way for first military commission trial

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