Edmund Burke (human rights lawyer)
- Edmund Burke (human rights lawyer)
Edmund Burke is an American lawyer, based in Hawaii.[cite news]
url=http://honoluluweekly.com/feature/2006/05/searching-for-answers/
title=Searching for answers: Why is a Honolulu lawyer representing an admitted member of the Taliban?
publisher=Honolulu Weekly
author=Jarrett Keohokalole
date=April 26 2006
accessdate=2007-10-10] [cite news]
url=http://www.mauinews.com/news/2007/10/8/05Lawy1008.html
title=Isle lawyer to speak on Guantanamo
publisher=Maui News
page=
author=
date=Monday October 8, 2007
accessdate=2007-10-10] Burke is notable for volunteering to serve, pro bono, for a captive held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[Burke has gone on speaking tours to inform the public about the constitutional issues raised by the Bush Presidency's detainee policies. On a speaking tour in early October 2007 Burke was quoted saying:quotation]
"Congress has cast aside the Constitution and the principle of habeas corpus, which protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment, Our free society is based on the rule of law, and this basic protection must be restored."Burke's captive is a Libyan, who acknowledges serving with the Taliban -- but only until 1998, when an explosion crippled him.[ Because the explosion caused him to lose one leg, and damaged the other to the extent he cannot bear his weight on his remaining leg, Burke commented: quotation|"It’s very hard to imagine him as a combatant of any kind,”]Burke said his client was captured in Pakistan, and believes he was turned over to American Forces in return for a bounty.[ ]References
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