Law firm assists five held in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Law firm assists five held in Cuba
Holland & Hart works without fee for Guantanamo detainees

By Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News
June 24, 2005

Motai Saib doesn't know it yet, but a team of Holland & Hart lawyers is on his case.

Saib doesn't know because he's being held incommunicado as a suspected terrorist in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He's Prisoner No. 288, and his name and his wish for an attorney, and almost nothing else about him, were passed out of the prison by another detainee who already had a lawyer and could write to him.

Lawyers with Holland & Hart, a Denver-based firm with offices throughout the Rocky Mountain west, are working without charge to get hearings in U.S. courts for Saib and four other Guantanamo detainees, all citizens of Algeria.
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The work is part of a nationwide effort by hundreds of private attorneys who have volunteered to seek due process for the more than 500 detainees still at Guantanamo.
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http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3879741,00.html

[Roland99]

1. What's wrong with these lawyers? Why are they appeasing these

terrorists?

These lawyers hate America and are undermining our troops' morale.



:sarcasm:

[merwin]

2. How DARE they protect human rights!!! Those bastards!

[Gothmog]

3. This made me smile

I am glad to see lawyers stepping up to do the right thing