On January 7, 2010 at 9:30a.m, a three-judge panel (Judges Sentelle, Tatel, and Edwards) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in Maqaleh v. Gates (No. 09-5265), the first legal challenge in U.S. courts on behalf of prisoners detained at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.

The case is brought by IJNetwork on behalf of two Yemenis and one Tunisian citizen, each seized outside of Afghanistan from third countries and held without charge or trial in U.S. custody for more than six years.