A federal appeals court on Feb 11 sided with the Obama administration in declining to block the force-feeding of detainees on a hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay naval station.
The divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, however, concluded that the prisoners can use federal habeas corpus petitions to challenge confinement conditions. The court’s ruling is here.
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