Guantanamo suicide evidence preservation motion [CCR]

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Guantanamo suicide evidence preservation motion [CCR]

June 21, 2006 08:51:00 pm

Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence, Center for Constitutional Rights, US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 21, 2006 [contending that based on the "meager" information released by the government regarding the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees "it is not possible to even know who died in [the government's] custody, let alone how," and that a preservation order would not be unduly burdensome on the government]. Read the full text of the motion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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