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President Barack Obama has announced he is to revive military trials for some detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
However, he said legal rights for those facing the military commissions would be significantly improved. Mr Obama had halted the trials as one of his first acts on taking office in January, saying the US was entering a new era of respecting human rights. The decision to revive the military trials has brought harsh criticism from some US civil liberties groups. There are currently 240 detainees still at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On the campaign trail last year, Mr Obama had branded the military commissions "an enormous failure". However, analysts say that although Mr Obama has condemned the Military Commissions Act, set up by his predecessor George W Bush, he has never ruled out revamping it.
He has pledged to close the camp by January 2010.
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