Two American organisations for the protection of human rights and a group of prominent lawyers from all around the world addressed the US Supreme Court asking for the legal protection for prisoners in the American naval base in Guantanamo. The Center for Justice and Responsibility and the International League for Human Rights, along with seventeen lawyers, among them Professor Vojin Dimitrijević, Director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, addressed the court by amicus curie statement. They intervened on behalf of the accused in the procedure brought against the group of prisoners of war from the conflict in Afghanistan, demanding legal protection for their rights. The courts in America declared the case inadmisible claiming that the Guantanamo base territory formally belongs to Cuba. In appeallingthis decision it is said that the prisoners of war are under the US jurisdiction according to all international standards and that their human rights must not remain without legal protection.
