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DOS Memo re: UK Court Proceeding Concerning Brittish National Detained at Guantanamo
Mar. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3778 
    
    
      DOS Memo concerning a UK court proceeding on the application by the family of Brittish national detained at Guantanamo. The court was asked to exercise jurisdiction over the detainee, as a brittish citizen, have him released from U.S. custody and returned to Brittan. The Brittish court ruled that "rights under the HRA and ECHR did not extend beyond UK or the territories of the parties to them i.e. not Guantanamo Bay."    
    
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