Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, 1051, Riverside Drive, Unit 11, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2020 Oct;75:102053. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102053. Epub 2020 Sep 1.
In June 2020, a Guantánamo military judge ruled in United States of America v. Majid Shoukat Khan that he has the legal authority to mitigate Khan's criminal sentence as a remedy for illegal pretrial punishment if his attorneys prove that he suffered torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in government custody. This commentary analyzes the ruling and its implications for Guantánamo's legal system, detainees, and forensic medicine.
2020 年 6 月，关塔那摩军事法官在美利坚合众国诉马吉德·舒卡特·汗案中裁定，如果汗的律师证明他在政府拘留期间遭受酷刑和其他残忍、不人道或有辱人格的待遇，他有权减轻汗的刑事判决，作为对非法审前惩罚的补救。本评论分析了该裁决及其对关塔那摩法律体系、被拘留者和法医学的影响。
