The U.S. Senate vetoed a bill on Wednesday that considers restoring the right of Guantanamo detainees and other foreigners to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts.
The lawmakers voted against the bill by 56 to 43, only 4 less than the needed 60 votes to win greenlight in the Senate.
The bill contains a measure that grants foreign terrorism suspects right of habeas corpus, which can prevent the government detaining them without court approval.
Currently, about 340 al Qaida and Taliban suspects were held captive at the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Apart from them, millions of permanent legal residents but not citizens of the United States will also be affected by the denial of the bill in the Senate, senators who sponsored the bill said.
However, those who opposed to the bill said that terrorism suspects should not be allowed to file lawsuits against U.S. troops who caught them on the battleground.
Last year, Congress deprived non-U.S. citizen who were listed by the government as "enemy combatants" of their right to prevent them from going at large again and launch attacks.
Source: Xinhua
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