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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.
The detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, remand prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. The length of detention of suspected terrorists , with the justification of taking an action that would aid counter-terrorism , varies according to country or situation, as well ...
Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.
The justices will consider the federal government's appeal of a case brought by lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.The court ruled that the plenary power doctrine does not authorize the indefinite detention of immigrants under order of deportation whom no other country will accept.
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This category contains articles about depriving people of their liberty in any context, whether as pre-trial detention, punishment for committing crimes, extrajudicial punishment, prisoners of war, arbitrary arrest and detention, internment, extraordinary rendition, extrajudicial detention, forced disappearances (temporary or permanent), or otherwise.