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James Freedland, (212) 519-7829 or 549-2666; media@aclu.org

ACLU at Guantanamo Monitoring Unconstitutional Military Commissions This Week

Just six days before a new president who pledged to shut down
Guantanamo is sworn into office, the Bush administration is beginning
proceedings in a military commission case against Sudanese prisoner
Noor Uthman Muhammed. The American Civil Liberties Union is at
Guantanamo today to monitor Muhammed's arraignment.

Muhammed is accused of conspiring
with al-Qaeda and providing support for terrorism. Staff attorney Ben
Wizner of the ACLU National Security Project will be observing this
week's proceedings.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba

Just six days before a new president who pledged to shut down
Guantanamo is sworn into office, the Bush administration is beginning
proceedings in a military commission case against Sudanese prisoner
Noor Uthman Muhammed. The American Civil Liberties Union is at
Guantanamo today to monitor Muhammed's arraignment.

Muhammed is accused of conspiring
with al-Qaeda and providing support for terrorism. Staff attorney Ben
Wizner of the ACLU National Security Project will be observing this
week's proceedings.

More information about the ACLU's
call for President-elect Obama to shut down Guantanamo and the military
commissions is available online at: www.closegitmo.com

Additional information about the
ACLU's involvement surrounding the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo
Bay can be found online at: www.aclu.org/gitmo

The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 and is our nation's guardian of liberty. The ACLU works in the courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

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