The ICJ welcomes the announcement that Yaser Hamdi, a dual US/Saudi national who has been detained as an “unlawful combatant” mostly incommunicado since late 2001, is to be released from a US Naval Brig.
“The US Supreme Court has taken the first step in closing the legal black hole in which the US Government is holding prisoners in Guantanamo Bay”, said Nicholas Howen, Secretary General of the ICJ.
The ICJ called for an independent and impartial investigation into the treatment of detainees and the whole process of arresting and detaining people in Iraq to be swiftly set up by the Coalition Forces.The call came as the first court martial of a US soldier involved in the abuse of Iraqi detainees concluded in Baghdad today.
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