US top court allows Gitmo appeals

June 12, 2008

The US Supreme Court ruled that prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have the right to appear in civilian courts. The ruling concerns a 2006 law backed by President Bush and approved by Congress, then controlled by Republicans. That law denied to terror-related detainees what are known as habeas corpus rights, the right of individuals to challenge their imprisonment. Deborah Lutterbeck reports