USA: Judicial review and remedy still more myth than reality for Guantánamo detainees

USA: Judicial review and remedy still more myth than reality for Guantánamo detainees

Ten months after the US Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that the detainees held in US military custody at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba were entitled to a "prompt" habeas corpus hearing in district court to determine the lawfulness of their detention, only a handful of them have received such a hearing. Amnesty International details its concerns in a new report.