{"id":77,"date":"2007-12-06T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2007\/12\/06\/students-and-activists-demand-hab"},"modified":"2007-12-07T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T04:27:43","slug":"students-and-activists-demand-habeas-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2007\/12\/06\/students-and-activists-demand-habeas-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and Activists Demand Habeas Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students and activists held protests on campuses and in front of federal court houses in solidarity with Guant\u00e1namo detainees in the lead up to the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments December 5, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Court in the <em>Boumediene <\/em>case is set to decide the question of whether detainees can challenge the lawfulness of their detention in court through the centuries old legal guaranteed of habeas corpus rights. Currently, the government claims the detainees, held indefinitely without charge on the island prison, have no right to appear before a judge.<\/p>\n<p>Members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witnesstorture.org\/node\" title=\"Witness Against Torture homepage\">Witness Against Torture<\/a> protested in front of the Supreme Court itself, making for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witnesstorture.org\/node\/727\" title=\"Witness Against Torture article\">a striking juxtaposition of the symbols of injustice and supposed justice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.nyunews.com\/media\/storage\/paper869\/news\/2007\/12\/05\/CitystateNews\/Protesters.Fight.For.Rights.At.Guantanamo-3133140.shtml\" title=\"Washinton Square News article on Guant\u00e1namo protest\">protest in front of New York&#8217;s federal circuit court building involving NYU students and activist leaders<\/a>,  Betty Brassel, 77 and member of the Granny Peace Brigade and the Raging Grannies, said <strong>&#8220;everyone deserves a fair trial.&#8221;<\/strong>  NYU student Elena Landriscina explained that the protest was to &#8220;to <strong>raise public consciousness about the issue of habeas.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nina Catalano, one of the coordinators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=521108\" title=\"Crimson article on Harvard Guant\u00e1namo protest\">a protest on Harvard campus involving mock renditions<\/a>, distilled the question before the Court in <em>Boumediene <\/em>in a less legalistic way: <strong>&#8220;If you are in a cell and there is no judge to hear you when you scream, do you make a sound?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The protests were coordinated in large part through the work of Susan Hu at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/\" title=\"Center for Constitutional Rights website\">Center for Constitutional Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/files\/2007\/12\/ny-gtmo-protest-boumediene.jpg\" alt=\"M\ufffdchel Angela Martinez, 2007\" height=\"261\" width=\"392\" \/>              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/files\/2007\/12\/ny-gtmo-protest-boumediene-2.jpg\" alt=\"M\ufffdchel Angela Martinez, 2007\" height=\"261\" width=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"ep8xu\"><strong><span>Photo Credit: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span>M\u00edchel Angela Martinez<span class=\"ep8xu\"><span>, 2007<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and activists held protests on campuses and in front of federal court houses in solidarity with Guant\u00e1namo detainees in the lead up to the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments December 5, 2007. 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