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The World Factbook. Judge Rules Bagram Detainees Can Appeal to U.S. Courts. Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan (army.mil) For years, the 600 men imprisoned at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan largely escaped public notice.

Judge Rules Bagram Detainees Can Appeal to U.S. Courts

While the detainees at Guantanamo Bay roused the ire of critics of the Bush administration around the world, their counterparts at Bagram, held with fewer rights and much less scrutiny, languished in a U.S. -run prison and in some cases suffered gruesome beatings and even death at the hands of their captors. Tina Monshipour Foster, the founder and executive director of the International Justice Network, was for years one of the few U.S. lawyers trying to do anything about it. Afghanistan Facts.