Guantanamo prisoner hearings begin

For the first time since the September 11 2001 attacks, a terror suspect held nearly incommunicado at a US prison in Cuba got his chance to convince his jailers that he should go free.

Sat, 31 Jul, 2004 - 09:55

For the first time since the September 11 2001 attacks, a terror suspect held nearly incommunicado at a US prison in Cuba got his chance to convince his jailers that he should go free.

The hearing at the US Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, yesterday, is the government’s most visible response since a Supreme Court ruling last month granted new legal rights to about 600 foreign-born men held at the US base on Cuba’s south-eastern tip.