At left is Ravil Mingazov in an undated photo taken before his 2002 capture in Pakistan. At right is U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. who on Thurdsay May 13, 2010 ordered his release from the prison camps at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Photo c/o Miami Herald
A federal court on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to set free from Guantanamo a former Russian army ballet dancer turned devout Muslim whose plight captured the imagination of a Massachusetts college town [Amherst, one of two Pioneer Valley towns to offer resettlement]...
Thursday's midday ruling raised to 35 the number of Guantanamo detention cases the U.S. government has lost since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that the war-on-terror captives can sue for their freedom in federal courts.
* Author and journalist Andy Worthington maintains an interactive list of all 47 habeas cases here
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