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May 21, 2009

Court Rules US Can Hold Prisoners Without Charge
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A federal judge has ruled the government can continue to indefinitely
jail prisoners without charge. In a ruling this week, US District Judge
John Bates said anyone determined to have engaged in clashes with the US
military or its allies, or to have belonged to the Taliban or al-Qaeda,
can be held without trial. But Bates also rejected the Obama
administration’s assertion it can jail anyone who “supports” those
groups. The ruling came in a case challenging the jailing of several
Guantanamo prisoners.



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