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January 30, 2013

Defense Attorneys Seek 48-Hour Visit to Guantánamo 
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Attorneys for five alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks have asked a
military judge to allow them to spend 48 hours at the Guantánamo Bay
prison where their clients have been held. On the second day of a
pretrial hearing, Navy Commander Walter Ruiz said the conditions of the
suspects' imprisonment should factor into whether they are ultimately
sentenced to death.

Walter Ruiz: "It's a case where we've asked to put people to death. And
when the government sets out to put people to death, our Supreme Court
has said standards are this high. One of those standards is our ability
to go in and look at their conditions of confinement, look at how they
live."

 

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