US military jails in Afghanistan 'legal black holes'
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, July 21, 2008
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US human rights lawyers charged Sunday that US military prisons are "legal black holes" and the force is detaining journalists to "shut people up" about activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. A vast detention camp planned for the main US base in Afghanistan will be a "second Guantanamo" where laws do not apply, they said.
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