Guantanamo sentences lighter than expected

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The military tribunals held at this isolated U.S. outpost have been lambasted as kangaroo courts, heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution. But most of the convictions so far have led to lighter than expected sentences.

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