U.S.: Families Sue Over Guantanamo Deaths

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The families of two prisoners who died at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are asking a federal court to reconsider its ruling dismissing their lawsuit, which seeks to hold federal officials and the U.S. government accountable for their sons' torture, arbitrary detention, and ultimate deaths.

According to their lawyers, the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the families' request is based on newly discovered evidence from four soldiers who describe a cover-up by the authorities and say they were ordered not to speak out. The soldiers' accounts were reported in Harper's Magazine in January.

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