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Lawyers have filed petitions in a US court on behalf of nine prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
The petitions are the first to be filed since a US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week said they could challenge their detention in US courts.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, which is part of the legal action, says the petitions concern nine detainees out of nearly 600 still at Guantanamo.
The petitions say the detention is illegal and demand the men's release.
The detainees named include two Britons, Moazzem Begg from Birmingham and Feroz Abassi from Croydon in London, three French citizens and a Turk, two Arabs from Jordan and Iraq and a Canadian.
The petitions come hours after the Bush administration said it might release some of the prisoners.
BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says it is increasingly clear that the administration was caught off-guard by Monday's ruling.
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The petitions are the first to be filed since a US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week said they could challenge their detention in US courts.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, which is part of the legal action, says the petitions concern nine detainees out of nearly 600 still at Guantanamo.
The petitions say the detention is illegal and demand the men's release.
The detainees named include two Britons, Moazzem Begg from Birmingham and Feroz Abassi from Croydon in London, three French citizens and a Turk, two Arabs from Jordan and Iraq and a Canadian.
The petitions come hours after the Bush administration said it might release some of the prisoners.
BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says it is increasingly clear that the administration was caught off-guard by Monday's ruling.
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