Ahmed Abu Imran v. George W. Bush

Ahmed Abu Imran v. George W. Bush(Civil Action No. 05-764)is a writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf of twelve Guantanamo captives.cite web
url=http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/124/0.pdf
title=Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 124 -- Ahmed Abu Imran v. George W. Bush
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Clive A. Stafford Smith
date=2008-07-18
accessdate=2008-08-18
quote= ]

Military Commissions Act

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.cite news
url=http://natseclaw.typepad.com/natseclaw/files/Hamdan.28j.letter.pdf
title=NOTICE OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Peter D. Keisler, Douglas N. Letter
date=2006-10-16
accessdate=2008-09-30
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnatseclaw.typepad.com%2Fnatseclaw%2Ffiles%2FHamdan.28j.letter.pdf&date=2008-09-30 mirror] ]

Boumediene v. Bush

On June 12 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated.

The captives

When Clive Stafford Smith re-initiated Ahmed Abu Imran v. George W. Bush on July 18 2008he stated that only two of the twelve captives remained in Guantanamo. He stated that all the rest of the captives, but one were dropping their petitions.

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