United States: Supreme Court decides to review detainees’ rights to challenge their detention

Reconsidering its 2 April 2007 decision, the US Supreme Court decided on 29 June to review the cases of two groups of Guantánamo Bay detainees later in the year. Following this ruling, lower courts have refused to dismiss other habeas corpus cases, pending the Supreme Court decision.

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