French Detainees Challenge Confinement
"Lawyers for two French men held in a U.S. prison camp in Cuba on Friday asked a French judge to declare them prisoners of war after the United States ruled the Geneva Conventions did not apply to suspected al Qaeda fighters."
"In an unprecedented legal move, lawyers for Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali and their parents asked a civil judge to rule on the issue on the grounds that conditions at the Guantanamo Bay camp violate their fundamental freedoms as French citizens."
This is the second challenge by non-citizens to their indefinite detention without access to lawyers and other rights resulting from their designation as enemy combatants.
Yesterday we wrote about the Kuwaiti detainees' challenge, backed by their government, here.
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