Rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to be topic of lawyer’s speech

When the Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were entitled to legal representation, NIU College of Law professor Marc Falkoff was one of the principal attorneys to provide habeas corpus representation to more than a dozen prisoners being held there on suspicion of terrorism. Today he continues to represent more than a dozen Yemenite men held at the U.S. Naval Base prison, including one who recently tried to commit suicide by swallowing his forced feeding tube. Falkoff will share his experiences at a presentation Thursday at Northern Illinois University, hosted by DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice, along with the NIU History Department and the new student NIU Campus Anti-War Network. Falkof