Guantanamo Captive Representation
A team of Bingham attorneys and staff, led by Susan Baker Manning and Sabin Willett, has represented pro bono a dozen Uighur men held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Bingham has filed and extensively litigated numerous habeas corpus cases on behalf of their Uighur clients, as well as cases under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 that brought to light serious evidentiary and procedural flaws in the 2004-05 Combatant Status Review Tribunals that were used to justify the Uighurs' ongoing imprisonment. Thus far, six Bingham clients have been released: two to Albania and four to Bermuda.
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