Media not allowed to observe Guantanamo parole-style hearing: DOD

[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Friday announced that media entities and other would-be observers will not be allowed to sit in on the first session of the Periodic Review Board (PRB), a parole-style hearing process for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder]. In 2011 US President Barack Obama [official website] issued an executive order [text; fact sheet] establishing the PRB process, which empowers authorities to review whether continued detention of certain detainees held at...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/media-not-allowed-to-observe-parole-style-guantanamo-hearing-dod.php

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