Guantanamo Bay legal fight

THE legal status of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay is being challenged in the US Supreme Court.

The US has created a “lawless enclave” at a military base in Cuba where more than 600 men from 44 countries are being held without access to US courts, a lawyer for the men told the Supreme Court yesterday.

John Gibbons, representing British and Australian detainees, said: “It’s been plain for 215 years” that people in federal detention may file petitions in US courts.