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US detainees to get Geneva rights
Rules at Guantanamo have been unclear in the past
All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions.
The White House announced the shift in policy on Tuesday, almost two weeks after the US Supreme Court ruled that the conventions applied to detainees.
President Bush had long fought the idea that US detainees were prisoners of war entitled to Geneva Convention rights.
The defence department outlined the new policy to staff in an internal memo.
The new policy says all military detainees are entitled to humane treatment and to certain basic legal standards when they come to trial, as required by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5169600.stm