New Lawsuit Challenges Guantánamo Detentions and Demands Access to Courts and Lawyers

The American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), and ACLU of the District of Columbia have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the administration’s use of Guantánamo for immigration detention–sending immigrants to a “legal black hole” without access to lawyers or any means to assert their rights.

According to the ACLU’s press release:

The Trump administration has provided virtually no information about immigrants newly detained at Guantánamo, including how long they will be held there, under what authority and conditions, subject to what legal processes, or whether they will have any means of communicating with their families and attorneys. . . . While the Trump administration has widely publicized images of people it now detains at Guantánamo, it has also cut off any means of communication with them.

A copy of the complaint is available here.

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