Washington - The US government is considering closing a war-on-terror detention center at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and granting it detainees substantially greater rights, The New York Times reported on its website on Saturday.Citing unnamed officials involved in the discussions, the newspaper said the plan also called for possibly moving most of the detainees to the United States.
One proposal that is being discussed would overhaul the procedure for determining whether detainees are properly held by granting them legal representation at detention hearings and by giving federal judges, not military officers, the power to decide whether suspects should be held, the report said.
The move would be necessary in the event of the Guantanamo detention center's closure because, as some officials now say, moving the detainees to US soil would require giving them enhanced protections, the paper said. Read More at News24