The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a Yemeni citizen detained as an enemy combatant for more than 17 years at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without being charged with a crime. The court turned down the petition of Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi without comment. But Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the court may soon need to take such a case to decide whether Congress’s Authorization for Use of Military Force or the Constitution permits indefinite detention. “Hundreds of his former fellow prisoners — many facing far worse accusations, some even convicted of war crimes — now live free,” his lawyers told the Supreme Court. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh recused himself from the case, which had passed through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2019 15:11 UTC