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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8556

4 October 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/human rights
Families, lawyers and MPs meet around common objective - not to forget prisoners of Guantanamo - urgent call to EU governments to act

Brussels, 03/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - "Guantanamo: the right to a fair trial" was the theme of a public hearing held by the European Parliament's committee on civil liberties on Tuesday. A necessary clarification given that it is still not known precisely how many are being held at the American base in Cuba, some for over two years. The figure most often cited at the moment is 650 detainees, mostly nationals of Middle Eastern countries. But according to NGOs, there are over twenty European...

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