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Andy Worthington (Free subscription) | yesterday
... liberal tendencies often match those of the Presidents who appointed them. In November, when Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, ordered five Bosnian Algerians to be released from Guantánamo because the government had failed to substantiate its allegations against them, there was genuine surprise, but the decision in the case of these 17 other innocent men at Guantánamo was all...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
[JURIST] Judge Richard Leon for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US government could continue to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees Hisham Sliti and Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi. Both men had filed habeas corpus petitions challenging their detention, but Leon found that the government had met its burden of showing that men were being lawfully...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government's authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government had shown enough evidence to justify holding Yemeni citizen Moath Hamza...
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The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
A federal judge gave the government the go-ahead today to continue holding two Guantánamo Bay inmates, ruling it had enough evidence to justify their detention. Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied habeas...
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American Pundit (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government had shown enough evidence to justify holding Yemeni citizen Moath Hamza Amhed Al Alwi and Tunisian Hisham Sliti as “enemy combatants” linked to al Qaeda or Taliban forces.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government had shown enough evidence to justify holding Yemeni citizen Moath Hamza Amhed Al Alwi and Tunisian Hisham Sliti as "enemy combatants" linked to al Qaeda or Taliban forces.The Bush administration welcomed the rulings, but the American...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Reuters - A US judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government's authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government had shown enough evidence to justify holding Yemeni citizen Moath...
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Blogrunner (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... two Guant'namo Bay inmates, ruling it had enough evidence to justify their detention. Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied habeas... Thomas JoscelynWeekly Standard BlogAlan Rogers of USA Today captures one of the central dilemmas facing the new Obama administration here: President-elect Barack Obama vowed on the campaign trail to shut down...
