A U.S. citizen illegally detained by the Trump administration for more than a year was finally set free thanks to the work of the American Civil Liberties Union. I have been following the saga of the American citizen who was detained by the U.S. military in September 2017 while fleeing from violence in Syria. This Read More…
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Judge Rules White House Cannot Transfer American Citizen Detained Without Charge
A federal appeals court has blocked an attempt by the Trump Administration to move an unidentified detainee out of the U.S. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked the Trump administration from transferring an unidentified United States citizen, accused of fighting for the Islamic State in Syria, to another country. Read More…
Federal Government Continues To Argue In Favor Of Indefinitely Detaining An American Citizen
On Monday a federal judge challenged the U.S. government to justify the continued imprisonment of an American citizen who has been denied access to a lawyer for over three months. Washington D.C. – U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has expressed skepticism and frustration over the U.S. government’s arguments for detaining an American citizen for three months. Read More…
The Trump Administration Is Holding An American Citizen Without Charge Or Trial
Civil liberties advocates are worried about the fate of an American citizen accused of fighting for ISIS in Syria who has been held for almost two months in a secret Iraq prison without access to a lawyer. The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting to represent an American man who has been accused of fighting Read More…