Karen Greenberg’s comments on the habeas corpus petition from detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were cited in a Punch article.
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, called the habeas petition a novel new approach for the detainees, some in the prison since 2002.
The approach is taking cues from news and events during the Trump administration.
Speaking at the New America think tank, Greenberg, noted a new challenge that surfaced in the pre-trial hearing in Guantanamo on Wednesday of alleged September 11 attacks planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Sheikh Mohammed alleged Guantanamo prisoners were victims of persistent “sexual harassment” because guards were submitting them to repeated physical “groin searches” rather than using scanners.
Greenberg and other activists speaking at New America said the Trump administration had changed government policy to essentially close the doors for any possible exit from the Guantanamo camp, which at its peak had 775 detainees.