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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.
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 ]
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Australia has released a stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention for years, the government said on Friday, following a landmark court ruling that paves the way to end the indefinite ...
A persistent standard of indefinite detention without trial and incidents of torture led the operations of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be challenged internationally as an affront to international human rights, and challenged domestically as a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United ...