The US is reforming the kangaroo courts it uses at Guantanamo, allowing defendants to hear more of the evidence against them and having the presiding officer fill a role closer to that of a judge in an ordinary courtroom. However, the military commissions will still fail to meet basic standards of justice: defendants will still be tried on secret evidence, be judged by a jury whose impartiality and independence fail to pass the laugh test, and have no effective right of appeal. The kangaroo court will remain a kangaroo court; all the US is doing here is changing the colour of the kangaroo...
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