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Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial.The Human Rights Watch considers this practice as violating national and international laws, particularly human rights laws, although it remains in legislation in various liberal democracies.
Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen holds a person by removing or restricting their freedom or liberty at that time. Detention can be due to (pending) criminal charges against the individual pursuant to a prosecution or to protect a person or property.
Indefinite imprisonment or indeterminate imprisonment is the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing. It was imposed by certain nations in the past, before the drafting of the United Nations Convention against Torture (CAT). [ 1 ]
The justices will consider the federal government's appeal of a case brought by lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union.
A and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] UKHL 56 (also known as the Belmarsh 9 case) is a UK human rights case heard before the House of Lords.It held that the indefinite detention of foreign prisoners in Belmarsh without trial under section 23 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Before colonisation, imprisonment was used in sub-Saharan Africa for pre-trial detention, to secure compensation and as a last resort but not generally as punishment, except in the Songhai Empire (1464–1591) and in connection with the slave trade. [3] [4] In the colonial period, imprisonment provided a source of labor and a means of ...
Detention Law, Indefinite detention Obama [ note 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] was a lawsuit filed in January 2012 against the Obama administration and members of the U.S. Congress [ 5 ] by a group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges , challenging the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA). [ 6 ]