Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bagram prison, Afghanistan

Bagram prison is in Afghanistan and has been used since 2001 by the US to hold detainees in the "War on Terror". Currently it holds about 600-700 prisoners. There have been torture and abuse scandals there.
Obama is kind of using Bagram as Guantanamo so this is dangerous. One aspect of this is that Afghan prisoners held at Bagram are denied the right of habeas corpus (meaning the right to challenge their detention). A US judge just ruled that a prisoner held there, Haji Wazir, had no rights to challenge his detention.

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