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Advocate for Guantanamo detainees to speak, Feb. 27
Posted February 23, 2006; 10:23 p.m.
Sabin Willett, a lawyer seeking the release of a group of Chinese
nationals held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
will deliver a talk titled "Who's at Guantanamo?" at 4:30 p.m. Monday,
Feb. 27, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Willett, a Boston attorney, is acting as a pro bono representative for
a group of Turkic-speaking Muslims, known as "Uighurs," who fled
Communist Chinese rule and have been imprisoned for three years at
Guantanamo. A federal judge ruled in December that the Bush
administration's detention of the Uighurs was illegal but that the
court does not have the power to free them.
Willett is a partner in the firm of Bingham McCutchen, specializing in
commercial and bankruptcy litigation. He also is the author of several
legal novels.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.