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Article: Boston lawyers sue over alleged abuse at Guantanamo Bay
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- April 14, 2005
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KEN MAGUIRE, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-14-2005
Dateline: BOSTON
Lawyers for six men arrested in Bosnia and detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp sued the federal government, leveling new allegations of abuse and torture by U.S. forces.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday asks a judge to force the Justice Department and Defense Department to release information that would allegedly prove the torture of prisoners by American forces at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Lawyers for the six men _ all Algerians, four of whom have Bosnian citizenship _ allege that repeated requests for the information under the Freedom of Information Act have been ignored by the federal government.
"We've had ...