Habeas corpus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Habeas corpus (pronounced /ˌheɪbiːəs ˈkɔrpəs/ ) (Latin: You (shall) have the body) is a legal action, or writ, through which a person can seek relief from the unlawful detention of him or her...
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Detention of suspects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. Pre-charge detention refers to the period...
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Several weeks ago, two 16 year-old Muslim girls, one from Bangladesh and the other from Guinea, were arrested in New York City on the specious grounds that they were potential suicide bombers. Neither of the girls has been formally charged with any crime, ... As Ari Berman reported yesterday, few details about the arrests...
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Court Urged to Uphold Detention of Taliban Fighters at Guantanamo Bay Added: 27-Apr-2005 | Hits: 795 Rating: 6.50 Votes: 4 The Washington Legal Foundation urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the U.S. military's decision to detain captured Taliban fighters at the Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, December 28, 2009 - A Yemeni reporter is being held without charge after being arrested on Sunday while covering clashes between security forces and separatists in Yemen's southern province of Dhala, according to local news reports.
www.ifex.org/yemen/2009/12/30/al_jahafi_arrested/
Committee activities (inquiries and reports) ... To view or print the report, you will need Adobe Acrobat® PDF Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe.®...
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And it means that individuals could be held potentially forever without charge. And it’s important to know that the powers the government is asserting to hold Mr. al-Marri as an enemy combatant are the same powers they say they can hold a US citizen.
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Obama: US Can Detain Prisoners Indefinitely Without Charge ... Despite abandoning the label, the administration claims it still has the right to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge even if the individual is captured far from any battlefield and has not directly participated in hostilities.
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Read this story from the Guardian concerning the debate on the new detain without charge rules proposed in the UK. The article reports that "the home secretary said he was willing to consider limiting the timescale for detention in light of opposition from both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats."
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The president has the authority to detain people without charge, the Supreme Court decided today, dismissing a challenge by suspected al-Qaeda operative Ali Al-Marri. ... 15 Comments to "Supreme Court Says President Can Detain People Without Charge"
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