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Appeals court rejects Gitmo suit
An appellate court in Washington ruled Tuesday that the families of two Guantanamo detainees who the government says hanged themselves in their cells cannot sue for damages in U.S. courts.
The families of the detainees claimed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials were responsible for the deaths in 2006 and sued for unspecified money damages. The families say the detainees died after being subject to arbitrary detention, torture, inhuman treatment, violations of the Geneva Conventions and cruel and unusual punishment at the U.S. detention center.
But three conservative judges on the federal appeals court ruled that U.S. courts do not have authority to consider lawsuits related to treatment of Guantanamo detainees under the Military Commissions Act passed by Congress in 2006.
FLINT, Mich.
Mother visits son sentenced in Iran
The mother of a former U.S. Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the Michigan family said Tuesday.
Eric Volz said that Benhaz Hekmati was able to see her 28-year-old son Amir several times during a visit to Iran. Volz said the trip went well, and there were no problems with the interactions she had with Iranian authorities. She has since returned home, he said.
FRANCE
Strauss-Kahn held in prostitution inquiry
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former director of the International Monetary Fund whose political career was ruined last year after he was accused of attempted rape in New York, was held overnight Tuesday for a second day of questioning by police officials in the northern French city of Lille in an investigation into a prostitution ring accused of operating in France and Belgium.
On Tuesday, Strauss-Kahn presented himself voluntarily to the investigators who wanted to question him about accusations of complicity in activities related to prostitution in Paris and Washington, where two businessmen are accused of paying for orgies in 2010 and 2011.
A lawyer for Strauss-Kahn Henri Leclerc, appeared to confirm that he had attended the events, saying that his client would not have been aware if the women who entertained him were prostitutes.
Elsewhere
Venezuela: President Hugo Chávez said Tuesday that doctors had found a new lesion that could indicate a return of his cancer and that he would undergo an operation to have it removed.
Times wires
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