Curb sought on counsel to detainees
Boston Globe
10/25/06
The US government is seeking to sharply restrict communication between defense lawyers and inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison, asserting that some lawyers have given inmates 'inflammatory' material such as reports of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and news articles about terrorist attacks. The government is seeking judicial approval for new rules that would allow defense lawyers only four visits with their clients, rather than the unlimited number now permitted; control the topics that can be discussed in such meetings; and restrict the types of information that can be exchanged between lawyers and detainees through the mail. The government filed the new rules in August with the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., which is currently reviewing them in connection with the case of a Guantanamo detainee. If the court agrees to the limitations, they are expected to be applied to future cases...
https://tinyurl.com/vkva4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
10/25/06
The US government is seeking to sharply restrict communication between defense lawyers and inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison, asserting that some lawyers have given inmates 'inflammatory' material such as reports of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and news articles about terrorist attacks. The government is seeking judicial approval for new rules that would allow defense lawyers only four visits with their clients, rather than the unlimited number now permitted; control the topics that can be discussed in such meetings; and restrict the types of information that can be exchanged between lawyers and detainees through the mail. The government filed the new rules in August with the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., which is currently reviewing them in connection with the case of a Guantanamo detainee. If the court agrees to the limitations, they are expected to be applied to future cases...
https://tinyurl.com/vkva4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 26. Okt, 15:14
