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Bagram inmates challenge detention
Three detainess at the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan have challenged their detention in a US federal court, months after a separate ruling granted them the right to have their cases heard in American courts.
Judges at the US court of appeals in Washington, DC, began hearing arguments on Thursday in the case of Fadi al Maqaleh and Amin al Bakri, Yemeni detainees, and Redha al-Najar, a Tunisian, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Lawyers for the three argued that their clients should be able to pursue their cases in US civilian courts.
They said the men should be given the same right to trial that the US supreme court has granted to detainees at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But the Obama administration has argued that the courts have no jurisdiction over non-US citizens being held in a foreign war zone.