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WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The Obama administration's plan to use U.S. tribunals for "unprivileged enemy belligerents" will make trying terror suspects harder, Human Rights Watch says.
"The discredited military commissions should have been abandoned long ago," Joanne Mariner, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program director, said Wednesday. "The Obama administration is repeating a Bush-era mistake at the expense of real justice for crimes against the United States."
President Barack Obama, who promised to close Guantanamo Bay and move prosecutions into civilian courts when he was running for president, now supports a revision of military commissions. His proposals were included in a defense authorization bill approved by a Senate committee last week and expected to reach the Senate floor next week.
Human Rights watch said the legal procedures and safeguards in civilian courts have been tested for decades. In the past seven years, only three suspects have been tried by military commissions, while 145 have been tried in the federal courts.
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