Yet the justices granted the detainees only one specific right under CommonArticle 3: the right to have any criminal charges heard by a "regularly constituted court"--one created by an act of Congress.
Jacques Chirac, France's president, warned darkly last week that he would veto any Doha deal that demanded more changes to thecommon agricultural policy (see article).
Second, that CommonArticle 3 of the Geneva Conventions represents a minimum standard of decency that must be applied to all detainees, without exception.
CommonArticle 3 of the conventions, which relates to "non-international armed conflicts" -- the most common form of conflict in the world today -- is applicable to the situation in Syria.