Obama Halts Trials At Gitmo

January 21. 2009

According to news reports, President Barack Obama has halted trials at U.S. operated Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, to review pending cases.

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Obama Orders Halt to Prosecutions at Guantánamo

Published: January 21, 2009

In the first hours of his presidency, President Obama directed an immediate halt to the Bush administration’s military commissions system for prosecuting detainees at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Notice of the decision came in a legal filing in Guantanamo by military prosecutors just before midnight Tuesday. The decision, which had been expected as part of Mr. Obama’s pledge to close the detention camp, was described as a pause in all war-crimes proceedings there so that the new administration can evaluate how to proceed with prosecutions.

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