ACLU in Court Tomorrow in Guantanamo Habeas Case

Government Stalling To Avoid Judicial Scrutiny Of Mohammed Jawad's Indefinite
Detention

The American Civil Liberties Union will be in court Tuesday arguing that the
habeas corpus case of Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed Jawad should move forward
promptly. The government has continually attempted to delay the challenge to
the unlawful detention of Jawad, who has been held in U.S. custody for almost
seven years.

On May 26, the government filed a motion asking for an extension to comply
with a court order to produce facts and evidence it intends to use in its
case. The ACLU today filed its opposition to this most recent attempt to delay
the case. In the filing, the ACLU charges that the government's eleventh-hour
motion for an extension of time "is yet another unjustifiable attempt to
frustrate Petitioner Mohammed Jawad's right to challenge his imprisonment by
the United States."

The ACLU's filing in opposition to the government's motion for an extension is
available online at: www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/39704lgl20090601.html

More information about Jawad's case is available at:
www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/38714res20090113.html

WHAT:
A hearing in the habeas corpus challenge to the detention of Mohammed Jawad, a
Guantanamo prisoner who has been in U.S. custody since he was a teenager.

WHO:
Jonathan Hafetz, a staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project,
will argue on behalf of Jawad before Judge Ellen S. Huvelle. In addition to
Hafetz, attorneys on the case are Arthur Spitzer of the ACLU of the National
Capital Area and U.S. Air Force Major David J. R. Frakt, who also represents
Jawad in his military commission case.

WHEN:
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
2:00 p.m. EDT

WHERE:
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Courtroom 14
333 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

CONTACT: Rachel Myers of American Civil Liberties Union, +1-212-549-2689,
+1-212-549-2666, media@aclu.org

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- June 1/

SOURCE American Civil Liberties Union