Indefinite Detention

7 Ways To Get Yourself Detained Indefinitely

HuffingtonPost.com | Nick Wing | Posted 05.26.2012

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Debate continued to rage this week over a short, loosely worded segment of the new 565-page 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that critics, lawm...

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Will SCOTUS Abandon Gitmo?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.23.2012

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The Supreme Court is expected to decide as soon as Thursday whether it will hear the Latif v. Obama and possibly restore a right to meaningful judicial review for detainees imprisoned in the name of the "war on terror."

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Senators: Unconstitutional Detention Law Is Fine

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat responsible for America's indefinite detention law sees no reason to change the measure after it was ruled unconstituti...

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Bill To End Indefinite Detention Fails In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A judge may have found unconstitutional the law that allows people to be held indefinitely without trial by the military, but the House ...

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Indefinite Detention Showdown Looms In The House

Posted 05.19.2012

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By DONNA CASSATTA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of t...

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How to Prevent Indefinite Military Detention in the United States. Really.

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.17.2012

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The National Defense Authorization Act rightly outraged many on both the left and the right last year, and legislators from all over the political map are now responding. But while one of those responses is real -- i.e., it would actually fix the problem -- one is not, and by pretending to fix it would only make things worse.

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GOP Admits It Lacks Votes for Afghan War; House to Vote on Drone Strikes, Afghan Exit & Indefinite Detention

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.17.2012

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On Wednesday night, the House GOP leadership effectively conceded that they no longer have the votes in the House to sustain the current war policy in Afghanistan.

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Indefinite Detention Provision Blocked

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.16.2012

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NEW YORK -- A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecu...

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Law With 'Chilling Impact On First Amendment' Ruled Unconstitutional

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A day before Congress weighs an amendment to end indefinite military detentions in the U.S., a federal judge Wednesday ruled the law tha...

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Lawmakers Try To End Indefinite Detention In America

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to end the law that lets the military indefinitely detain people arrested in America on terror...

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Dem, GOPer Target Indefinite Detention

Mother Jones | Posted 05.09.2012

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With Congress getting ready to assemble the next big defense authorization bill, two House members are coming together across party lines to ensure th...

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GOP Indefinite Detention Fix May Not Work

Mother Jones | Adam Serwer | Posted 05.04.2012

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Facing a serious civil liberties backlash, Congress is considering changing a controversial counterterrorism law it passed last year....

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The U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership: Hold the Applause

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 04.23.2012

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Having been in the country for the past decade and seized and imprisoned thousands of suspected fighters, the United States has an obligation to help the Afghan government establish a justice system that will treat them fairly. It will surely be blamed later if it doesn't.

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Obama Administration Writes Rights Out of New Indefinite Detention Law

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 04.18.2012

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The Obama administration had an opportunity to make clear that it takes due process rights and international law seriously, and that, as the war in Afghanistan winds down, it plans to bring indefinite military detention without meaningful review, charge, or trial to an end.

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Indefinite Detention Sparks GOP Debate

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.17.2012

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Monday night's Republican primary debate in Utah's U.S. Senate race sparked an interesting disagreement over the National Defense Authorization Act, a...

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GOP May Change Indefinite Detention

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — Facing a conservative backlash, House Republicans are working to change a new law that allows the indefinite detention without tria...

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Latest Afghan Torture Report Casts Shadow on U.S. Transfer Plans

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.20.2012

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After the U.N. report pointed this problem out last year, the U.S. military pledged 'never again' -- it would stop transferring captives to the abusive Afghan security service facilities until the Afghan government had demonstrated that the problem was solved.

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Obama and Karzai Talk, but the Fate of 3000 U.S. Prisoners in Afghanistan Remains a Mystery

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.16.2012

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President Obama is surely negotiating U.S. troop withdrawal carefully so as to keep U.S. soldiers from facing unnecessary risks. He should take the same care with the lives of Afghans.

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Democrats Move To Repeal Indefinite Detention

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A pair of lawmakers on Thursday offered a bill that would repeal laws that allow the indefinite detention of Americans and others by the...

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Obama Waives Rule Allowing Indefinite Military Detention Of Americans

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The White House released rules Tuesday evening waiving the most controversial piece of the new military detention law, and exempting U.S...

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Lessons to Remember From Japanese Internment

Bill Ong Hing | Posted 04.22.2012

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Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Their mass incarceration provides a lesson in human rights abuse that, unfortunately, the nation tends to forget too conveniently.

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Ron Paul Slams GOP Senator On House Floor Over Detention Of American Citizens (VIDEO)

Mollie Reilly | Posted 01.18.2012

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On Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) urged his congressional colleagues to support legislation that would repeal a clause ...

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NDAA, Indefinite Detention Provision Divide GOP Field

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.17.2012

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- The Republican candidates have sharp disagreements over a new policy to detain American citizens suspected of terrorism. Pres...

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Close the Guantánamo Gulag

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 03.17.2012

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The list of Guantánamo critics is a long one. Archbishop Desmond Tutu dubbed it a stain on the character of the United States. Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the United States must close the camp as soon as possible.

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A Peculiar and Pernicious Myth: Domestic Military Detentions

Kate Martin | Posted 03.13.2012

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There is an extraordinary claim being widely circulated: that the defense bill recently signed by the president authorizes the detention without charge of Americans and other terrorist suspects found in the United States. That is simply untrue.

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