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- Title
Hamdan v Rumsfeld and the Law of War.
- Authors
Happold, Matthew
- Abstract
The article discuses the court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. In this case, the detention of alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda members by the U.S. government at its military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was questioned. Salim Ahmed Hamdan is a Yemeni national, who was detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in November 2001. The court observed that the military commission lacks power to proceed because its structure and its procedures violate the Geneva Conventions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); UNITED States. Supreme Court; HAMDAN v. Rumsfeld (Supreme Court case); HAMDAN, Salim Ahmed, 1970-; GENEVA Conventions (1949)
- Publication
Human Rights Law Review, 2007, Vol 7, Issue 2, p418
- ISSN
1461-7781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hrlr/ngm010