SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A military court has upheld the conviction of the first Guantanamo Bay prisoner to be tried for war crimes at the US base in Cuba.
The US Court of Military Commission Review refused to overturn the August 2008 conviction of Salim Hamdan. The court rejected a claim that the charge of providing material support to terrorism is not a war crime that can be prosecuted by a military tribunal.
Hamdan was charged because he had been a driver for Osama bin Laden. Hamdan was sentenced to prison but has been returned to his native Yemen.
The Pentagon released the ruling yesterday.
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