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NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge, ruling on a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press, came a step closer Wednesday to forcing the government to reveal the names of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees by rejecting its contention that identifying them would violate their privacy.
The some 500 prisoners at the U.S. prison camp in eastern Cuba have been held for several years without being charged or publicly identified, which has troubled human rights groups.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said in his ruling that the government had not backed up its claim that prisoners faced retaliation by terrorist groups if their identities became known.
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