Tribunals are 'US insult to Britain'
Guantánamo prisoner's father seeks formal protest by Blair
Vikram Dodd
Wednesday September 29, 2004
The Guardian
The father of a Birmingham man detained in Guantánamo Bay said yesterday that America had insulted the UK by putting his son and three other Britons before its special tribunals, which have been dismissed by critics as "kangaroo courts".
The tribunals' role is to decide whether the Britons, accused by the US of being terrorists and held for up to 2 years without charge or trial, are enemy combatants, as the Pentagon alleges.
The Guardian revealed yesterday that US military documents said the four would go before the combatant status review tribunals by mid-October.
The prisoners' lawyers and their families called on the government to make a formal protest to Washington.
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