[1][2] Habeas corpus is a legal tool in the English tradition of justice, dating back to Magna Carta, prohibiting arbitrary arrest and detention.
Captives are entitled to file a writ of habeas corpus before a judge, requiring the state to offer a justification for his or her detention.
[1] The officers who sat on the CSR Tribunals and annual Review hearings weren't authorized to challenge the credibility of the allegations presented to them.
[3] The Executive branch was expected to file fifty factual returns per month, starting in August 2008.
On June 1, 2009, Thomas F. Hogan, the Judge coordinating the Guantanamo habeas petitions, ordered that the executive branch had to make the unclassified factual returns public.