Guantanamo captives' appeals in Washington DC Courts

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Guantananmo captives have been allowed to initiate appeals in Washington DC Courts since the passage of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA). The closed off the right of Guantanamo captives to submit new petitions of habeas corpus. It substituted a right to a limited appeal to Federal Courts of appeal in Washington DC.^[1] The Act allowed captives to challenge whether their Combatant Status Review Tribunals had correctly followed the rules laid out by the Department of Defense.

After the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) closed down the pending habeas corpus cases. Attorneys for the captives initiated both a challenge to the constitutionality of the MCA's stripping of the right to habeas corpus; and they started initiating the appeals in the DC Federal Courts of appeal allowed by the DTA.

[edit] Captives who are filing appeals in Federal Court

isn	names	case	notes
968	Bismullah	Bismullah v. Gates	Bismullah's case has been the subject of multiple filings as to the scope that captive's attorneys should be given to the material behind the summarized allegation.[2][3][4][5][6]
320	Hozaifa Parhat	Parhat v. Gates

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