New York, July 22 (PTI): A United States court has ordered the Bush administration to reveal virtually all its information on Guantanamo Bay detainees who are challenging their detention, rejecting an effort by the government to limit disclosures.
The ruling came in one of the main cases relating to the fate of the detainees, effectively setting the stage for new legal battles over the government's reasons for holding the men indefinitely, 'The New York Times' reported yesterday.
It will also set the ground rules for scores of cases by detainees challenging the actions of Pentagon tribunals which decide whether terror suspects should be held as enemy combatants.
About 360 people are currently being detained at the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The court said that meaningful review of the military tribunals would not be possible "without seeing all the evidence, any more than one can tell whether a fraction is more or less than half by looking only at the numerator and not the denominator".
A Justice Department spokesperson, Erik Ablin, however, declined to comment on the decision. "The department is reviewing the decision's implications and evaluating our options," the daily quoted the spokesperson as saying.
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