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American Detained By US Military Without Charge For Over A Year Finally Set Free
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…
United Nations Calls For Accused 9/11 Plotter To Be Released Immediately
As the 9/11 trial faces further delays, the United Nations has issued a report calling for the immediate release of a man accused of helping plan the 9/11 terror attacks. A new report from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Definition condemns the illegal detention and torture of a man who was once accused 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…
Fifth Anniversary Of NDAA “Indefinite Detention”
On December 31, 2011, New Year’s Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law the most constitutionally damaging law in American history, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. This New Year’s Eve we note its 5th Anniversary. Previous annual appropriations bills funding national defense were mostly procedural but it was the addition of two sections, Read More…