The Supreme Court of the United States today rejected, without comment, to accept the appeals of seven detainees at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
The decision of the Supreme Court upheld the decision of an appeals court in the country, reported the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
The Supreme Court should rule on the case Latif against President Barack Obama, in which the complainants felt that the appeals court in Washington DC had denied them the right to appeal against his detention.
Four years ago, the Boumedienne case against Bush authorized inmates to challenge the legality of their confinement, recalled the newspaper.
By refusing to review these cases and all of those in Guantanamo, the Court abandoned its pledge to guarantee detainees the constitutional right to a review of the lawfulness of their confinement, said Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York
Monday's decision leaves the fate of detainees in the hands of hostile Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington DC, which has risen numerous and unjustified legal obstacles that have made it virtually impossible for a detainee to win a case of habeas corpus in the courts, the paper stressed.
Washington has opened a prison for more than a decade in Guantanamo Bay, a portion of Cuban territory illegally occupied.