Federal Court Rules Bagram Prisoners Can’t Challenge Their Detention In U.S. Courts

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2010.  A federal court of appeals ruled today that three prisoners who are being held by the United States at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot challenge their detention in U.S. courts. The non-Afghan prisoners, some of whom were captured outside of Afghanistan far from any battlefield and “rendered” or transferred to Bagram, have been held at the detention facility for more than seven years without access to a court or counsel.…