No Justice: Gitmo Trials 'Designed to Convict'
/Pre-trial hearings that began Tuesday at the U.S.
military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of prisoners taken in the U.S.
"war on terrorism" are "designed to convict," says one expert. The lack
of attorney-client confidentiality, absence of an appeals process,
classified testimony and the two and a half years that many detainees
have been held without access to lawyers has produced a legal system
tilted against the defendants, says Michael Ratner,
president of the Centerfor Constitutional Rights (CCR). [more 
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