Conferring habeas corpus on enemy aliens detained abroad in the course of an ongoing war : foreign judicial decisions

In Boumediene v Bush the United States Supreme Court held, by a majority of five to four, that individuals detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay had the right to file habeas corpus petitions in a federal civilian court challenging their imprisonment. Boumediene thus gave detainees held at Guantanamo access to the ancient writ of habeas corpus, a procedure testing the legal authority of jailers to detain their prisoners.