Requiring detainees held at the U.S. military installation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to undergo genital searches before meeting with their lawyers is a “reasonable” security precaution, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Friday.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a trial judge’s order striking down the policy. The court rejected the detainees’ claims that the new search policy was deliberately aimed at restricting their access to counsel because many detainees would refuse genital-area searches for religious reasons.
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