Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published July 30, 2009.
A US district judge today ruled that a Guantanamo detainee must be released in three weeks time. Mohammad Jawad was arrested in 2002 in Afghanistan, when he was a teenager, allegedly for throwing a grenade at two US troops and an Afghan interpreter.
Jawad confessed to participating in the attack, but last year a military judge ruled his confessions had been obtained through torture and could not be used in court. The Department of Justice said last week it will no longer hold Jawad as an enemy combatant. But government attorneys say they will continue to conduct a criminal investigation against him, and they claim they have found new evidence from eyewitnesses.
Jawad´s attorneys are saying the US government should stop pressing charges against their client. FSRN spoke with Jonathan Hafetz, a staff attorney at the ACLU´s National Security Project, who currently represents Mohammad Jawad.
