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For Immediate Release
Contact:

Elizabeth Beresford, (212) 519-7808 or 549-2666; media@aclu.org

ACLU At Guantanamo Monitoring Unconstitutional Military Commissions This Week

The American Civil Liberties Union is at Guantanamo this week to monitor the military commission pre-trial hearing of Sudanese national Noor Uthman Muhammed. The ACLU has been present as an independent observer at nearly every military commission hearing since 2004 and continues to see no indication that the proceedings are fair, impartial or in accordance with constitutional principles.

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba

The American Civil Liberties Union is at Guantanamo this week to monitor the military commission pre-trial hearing of Sudanese national Noor Uthman Muhammed. The ACLU has been present as an independent observer at nearly every military commission hearing since 2004 and continues to see no indication that the proceedings are fair, impartial or in accordance with constitutional principles.

Sarah Mehta, attorney with the ACLU Human Rights Program, will be observing this week's proceedings.

Muhammed is the only detainee in Guantanamo currently facing war crimes charges. He is alleged to have provided material support to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda. The ACLU continues to believe that the military commissions are a second class system of justice and that terrorism suspects should be prosecuted in federal courts.

Additional information can be found online at: www.aclu.org/national-security/detention https://www.aclu.org/national-security/detention

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.

(212) 549-2666