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The article reports that the 2006 Military Commissions Act has been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on its February 20, 2007 decision. The law bars detainees held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from contesting their detentions in federal court. The decision was seen as a direct response to the Supreme Court's 2006 ruling in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case.

Reports on the ruling of U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein regarding the release of records about the abuse of detainees imprisoned at U.S. military facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Significance of the documents of the imprisonment to the American Civil Liberties Union; Use of the archive in journalism; Order of the Hellerstein to the U.S. Department of Defense for the turn over of photographs an videos that depict abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.