Habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees of habeas corpus. The third Geneva Convention considers a fair trial so essential to prisoner rights that 'willfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of a fair and regular trial is deemed a grave breach of the convention and, consequentially, a war crime'. In early 2002 the first major petition for a writ of habeas corpus regarding Guantanamo detainees was filed. This was denied on the foundation that U.S courts lacked jurisdiction over the camp and its prisoners; Guantanamo Bay is located in Cuba, outside of the territory of the USA, and the writ of habeas corpus is
Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay half a dozen men who had lived in Canada, either as refugees, candidates for citizenship, or illegal immigrants. On April 25, 2011, the whistleblower site WikiLeaks started publishing documents they called detainee assessment briefs. These previously unpublished documents had been drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, whereas all the previously published documents from Guantanamo had been drafted by the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants of the Office of Military Commissions. Sixteen captives secret files were not available to wikileaks, including Abdurahman Khadr's. Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges