A Legal Filing Alleges a Detainee Was Abused

by greg1usa | April 5, 2008 at 12:14 am

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SALIM AHMED HAMDAN was Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard was formally charged by The Department of Defense with conspiracy, for trial by military commission under the President’s Order of November 13, 2001

Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee asked a military judge to declare that the detainee had been subjected to abusive interrogation techniques, including beatings and sexual humiliation, in a legal filing Friday that is expected to set the stage for many other challenges centering on the treatment of detainees.

The filing could bring the first test of how judges in the Bush administration’s military commission system will rule on claims that detainees were subjected to aggressive techniques including torture and that statements they made can therefore not be used in legal proceedings.