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Amnesty International to the Bush Administration: Game Over Due to Supreme Court Ruling on Military Commissions
June 29, 2006"Amnesty International USA's Advocacy Director for International Justice and Domestic Human Rights Jumana Musa released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case. Ms. Musa, an international law attorney, has been Amnesty International's legal observer at the military commission hearings in Guantanamo Bay for the last two years and has monitored the proceedings in person on five occasions. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Bush did not have authority to set up the war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and found the "military commissions" illegal under both military justice law and the Geneva conventions..." [Read more]