ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Munaf v. Geren

Okay kiddo, so there was a guy named Munaf and he and some other guys got caught by the Army in Iraq. The Army said they were doing bad things, like planning to hurt people. Munaf said he didn't do anything wrong and that the Army didn't have the right to keep him locked up for so long. But then the Army said they were going to give him to the Iraqi government to let them decide what to do with him.

Munaf didn't like this because he thought the Iraqi government might hurt him or punish him unfairly. So he asked some really smart grown-ups called judges to help him. The judges had to decide if the Army was allowed to give Munaf to the Iraqi government without violating Munaf's rights.

In the end, the judges said that the Army was allowed to give Munaf to the Iraqi government because Iraq was in charge of taking care of bad things that happened in their own country. But they also said that the Iraqi government couldn't punish Munaf for anything he did before the Army caught him because that would be unfair.

So, that's the story of Munaf v. Geren, where a guy named Munaf wanted to make sure he was being treated fairly even if he was caught doing something wrong, and the judges helped him.