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Al-Bihani v. Obama

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Habeas petition denied; advocacy challenging indefinite detention pending.

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Al-Bihani v. Obama is a post-habeas challenge to indefinite detention of Ghaleb Nassar Al-Bihani, a citizen of Yemen held at Guantánamo for nine years without charge or trial.  Mr. Al-Bihani’s habeas petition was denied by the trial court based on a finding that he was an assistant cook for a group associated with Taliban.  The ruling was twice upheld by the D.C. Circuit, once by a three-judge panel which concluded in part that international law does not apply in U.S. courts, and again by a majority of judges on the court which concluded that the panel’s international law ruling was unnecessary but that Mr. Al-Bihani is nonetheless detainable.  The Supreme Court declined to review the case. 

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