Judge allows US govt to appeal

US District Judge Joyce Hens Green also put on hold her ruling so it would not take effect immediately while the administration appeals to the US Court of Appeals.

In a sharp rebuke for the administration, Green ruled on Monday that the prisoners at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the constitutional right not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law.

She ruled that the special military tribunals to determine the status of each Guantanamo detainee as an "enemy combatant" failed to satisfy constitutional requirements of due process under the law.

Green ruled the procedures failed to give the detainees access to material evidence and failed to let lawyers help them when the government refused to disclose classified information.