get abused by police will talk to activists campaigning for their rights. i m christine one bill welcome to news africa i m glad you re today and in sudan the struggle for democracy continues in april president obama was overthrown off to months of protests demonstrations continued to against the military that deposed him now those on the list have announced an agreement with opposition groups for a 3 year transition to a civilian government but those who have been standing up for change in sudan have paid a high price. for as long as you can remember i met hamdan has been on the front lines of sudan struggle for democracy 1st protesting against the government in 2013 now spending months on the streets of part of the latest. uprising against former
justice burger, who had been appointed. it was a moment where the president of the united states was ruled against by the supreme court, including two of his appointees. the hamdan case before speeds came back to me, justice kennedy, and 2008, ruling against president bush. in a wartime case. and so to my hamdan case, i do look at that as a case where the rule of law protects all who come into court, regardless of who you are. no one is above the law. the president is subject to many legal restraints in terms of the official capacity, the war effort, and i think my decisions have shown that independence in a variety of areas. thank you. let me shift gears in my final couple of minutes to technology. we struggle here in congress
to then sit in judgment later on in a case, the hamdan case which you ve alluded to earlier, where the defendant was osama bin laden s personal bodyguard and driver. he was captured by u.s. forces in afghanistan after 9/11 and detained in guantanamo bay. he subsequently went through a military tribunal and then that case was appealed to your court. and just correct me if i m wrong, but notwithstanding the experience you and everybody you cared about having been through this terrible travesty of 9/11, you ruled in favor of osama bin laden s bodyguard and driver, correct? that is correct. i wrote the majority opinion. how could you do that? how could you possibly do that? the rule of law applies to all who come before the courts of the united states.
one case came to us, hamdan, and the question was, was the prosecution unlawful because the crime of which he was convicted was not an identified crime as of 2001, when he was alleged to have committed it. expose facto principles. i wrote the opinion, reversing his conviction, even though it was a signature prosecution of the united states. even though it was a national security case. because that was the right answer under the law. it doesn t matter who you are or where you come from. if you re right under the law, you prevail. i d like to turn now to your work under the bush administration. as you know, my democratic colleagues are demanding to see every piece of paper or every single scrap of paper you ever touched during your six years in the bush administration. in part, because they want to
inside guys and they understand that it was a peaceful civilian march it was not militant they said this clearly you don t have to give the ladies any reasons to kill your people that was their advice and was true advice the areas where is our ally not everyone s a little hum that they have read this is not give any evidence the evidence mr hamdan is that this was not peace. for on april the twenty seventh the new york times reported an incursion involving dozens of people who made it through a barbed wire barrier some of them throwing fire bombs other rowlings burnings tower tires people armed with pistols another of your leaders mahmoud as our you know him well he even boasted in a television interview that the demonstrations had been bolstered by hamas weapons now he didn t say that he did using the. burning that they have in order to protect the civilians from the bullets of the israeli snipers by burning those tires york