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Fri 11 Nov 2008US judge rules five Algerian detainees be set free
A US JUDGE has ruled that five Algerian prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay must be set free, in a decision with far-reaching implications for the remaining detainees at the base in Cuba.
District court judge Richard Leon ruled in a Washington DC court yesterday that there was no legal basis to keep the five in prison. It is the first verdict in more than 200 habeas corpus petitions being brought before the US courts.
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