New Guantanamo hearings limit media, NGO access

By Associated Press, Ben Fox

Published January 25, 2014 5:00am ET

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New Guantanamo hearings limit media, NGO access — A task force set up to review the status of all prisoners at Guantanamo concluded in January 2010 that 48 of the 240 prisoners held at the time were too dangerous to release but could not be prosecuted either because of a lack of evidence or for some other reason. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) | Charles Dharapak

MIAMI (AP) — Some prisoners at Guantanamo are getting an opportunity to plead for their release, but journalists and observers from human rights groups won’t get to hear them in what critics say is a break from past practice at the U.S. base in Cuba.

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