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Innocent guantanamo detainee held on lies { December 6 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16962449 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16962449 Legal Affairs Court Divided After Day One of Guantanamo Case by Nina Totenberg Morning Edition, December 6, 2007 The final argument of the day was the rebuttal from former Solicitor General Waxman. The writ of habeas corpus, he contended, has always allowed prisoners to challenge their detention if they claim they are not warriors and are being wrongly held. The current system, he argued, does not allow for such an argument. To illustrate his point, Waxman pointed to a case in which he said a detainee was finally released after four years in detention because the detainee, a German man, had "what other detainees have not had — a lawyer." And when the lawyer filed a habeas petition in the federal courts, and the government filed a reply with its evidence, the lawyer saw that the government claimed the detainee had associated with a named terrorist who had blown himself up. "Within 24 hours, his counsel had affidavits not only from the German prosecuter, but from the supposedly deceased Mr. Bilgen, who is a resident of Dresden, never involved in terrorism, and fully getting on with his life," Waxman said. That evidence would not have been allowed under the CSRT hearing and appeals process, Waxman said, and that's why the process is inadequate.

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