Detainees shouldn't have lawyers: US

[the Kelly Gang]

Detainees shouldn't have lawyers: US
August 11, 2004 - 7:24AM

The US government contested the right of detainees held at a naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be represented by a lawyer before tribunals to determine whether they were really "enemy combatants" when they were captured.

The US Supreme Court ruled in June that the Defence Department had failed to give the inmates, most of whom were detained during the Afghanistan war in 2001, their full rights.

In response, special tribunals began July 29 to determine whether the detainees really were "enemy combatants" when they were captured.


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/11/1092102481479.html