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In a stinging rebuke of the Bush administration, a federal appeals court has ruled that the US cannot imprison "enemy combatants" indefinitely in Guantanamo Bay and deny them access to lawyers. The court in San Francisco said indefinite imprisonment at the Camp Delta naval base in Cuba was inconsistent with US law. The ruling, relating to the case of a Libyan man captured in Afghanistan, could be overturned when the US Supreme Court rules on the issue of representation in US courts. The United States has kept more than 600 people captive for nearly two years at Guantanamo following the undeclared war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
[Source: EuroNews.net]
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