Habeas Corpus

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• Selective Empathy

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 708
  A death sentence ruling by the Supreme Court shows that the quality of its mercy is selective.
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• Four Gitmo Detainees Transferred to Europe

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The Department of Justice announced today that four more detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred: one to Hungary , one to France , and two to Italy . The detainee headed for Hungary is identified only as being “from the West Bank.” The Justice Department said that the government of Hungary wanted ...
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• Human Rights Facts (166): The Cost of the Prison System in the U.S.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  Prison cartoon by Pavel Constantin ( source ) I’ve written before on human rights violations caused by the prison system. Imprisonment as such isn’t a human rights violation. I would rather call it a limitation of human rights (specifically the right to freedom of movement, but other rights as well), at least ...
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• Court: Baxter Can’t Intervene In McDonald Case

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 154
  © By June MaxamAll Rights ReservedSANDUSKY, OHIO—Erie County prosecutor Kevin Baxter has lost his bid to intervene in a case in which he’s been accused of withholding exculpatory evidence in a murder trial and threatening a witness in the case who has accused the prosecutor of using her as a sex slave.Dewitt ...
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• Charges of Abuse at Bagram Highlight Ongoing Problem With ‘Obama’s Gitmo’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  This weekend’s news that inmates at the part of the prison at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, run by Special Operations forces had suffered abuse sounded eerily reminiscent of the charges we’ve heard from previous prisoners victimized by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Joshua Partlow and Julie Tate at ...
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• Obama Still Running Black Site Prisons

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  Back at the beginning of the year, when much of liberal America was still flushed with glee at the inauguration of Barack Obama, we noted that there was a growing dark side to the new Obama Administration. Though Obama had promised during his campaign to overturn George W. Bush’s attacks against the Constitution, ...
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• Activist’s family alleges harassment by Chhattisgarh police

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) A rights organisation has highlighted the case of an activist in Chhattisgarh who they claim has been arrested by the state police and was being coerced to join the Salwa Judum, an anti-Maoist civil militia. Police has denied the charge.According to Citizens Initiative for Peace, the parents ...
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• Someone please tell Mrs. Al-Ghizzawi that her husband is cleared for release

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 145
  …if that means anything. It’s a long story, but after waiting eight years locked in Guantanamo, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi ’s tale could stand a listen. But his lawyer H. Candace Gorman is not allowed to tell it, she’s under court orders to keep mum. Even after details reached the foreign press, a judge ordered ...
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• Andy Worthington on Antiwar Radio and ABC: Gitmo, Torture, Trials and his new film

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Scott HortonAntiwar Radiowith Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk25 November 2009Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Obama’s broken promise to close Gitmo within a year, the enthusiastic U.S. embrace of rendition and torture after 9/11, the extralegal ...
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• Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere) by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk24 November 2009On Friday, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year old Algerian, after granting his habeas corpus petition. Her ruling has not yet been unclassified, so the ...
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• Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere)

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 556
  On Friday, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year old Algerian, after granting his habeas corpus petition. Her ruling has not yet been unclassified, so the reasons for her decision are not yet clear, but it is significant that the ruling now ...
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• Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 556
  One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born baby daughter, who was running a small bakery in Jalalabad, Afghanistan at the time of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. Fearing that he would be seized in the ...
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• Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk21 November 2009President Obama’s admission in China that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the closure of Guantánamo is disastrous for the majority of the 215 men still held, and for those who hoped, ten months ago, that he would ...
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• Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 735
  Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released by a U.S. federal district court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners. Judge Gladys Kessler’s written opinion is still ...
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• Rand Paul: Neocon Totalitarian

  
  Skeptical Eye — Authority: 478
  Ron Pauls son goes neocon : BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts. “Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections ...
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• The Crisis of the 9/11 terrorist trial.

  
  Michael Wolfe — Authority: 104
  The real tragedy of this trial is a that it is a lose-lose. 1. By going to civil court, the rights of the constitution* are bestowed upon non-citizens who attacked us, and freely confessed to doing so. This unconstitutional precedent could be used as a legal basis to grant constitutional rights to illegal immigrants. ...
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• Podcast: Q & A With Bob Barr: Guantanamo Bay Detainees Heading To The United States?

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 536
  In a special podcast, Jason and Brett interview Bob Barr to further explore his thoughts regarding the plan to possibly bring prisoners detained as part of the War on Terror to the United States for trial. On Monday, former Congressman Barr, along with Grover Norquist and David Keene released a joint ...
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• High court suspects honour killing, raps Ghaziabad police

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  News Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Expressing dissatisfaction with the Ghaziabad police’s investigation in the mysterious death of a girl who had married against her family’s wishes, the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked senior officials of the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why the case should not be handed over to the ...
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• Andy Worthington on U.S. Tour: "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo" (video)

  
  Invictus — Authority: 465
  As Andy Worthington is wrapping up his tour promoting the documentary, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo" (co-directed by Andy and filmmaker Polly Nash), a notice at his blog announces today that the Future of Freedom Foundation has made the film available as a 38-minute video entitled “An Evening with ...
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• 9/11 Trials, NY City, Terrorists, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Daniel Pearl decapitation, New York terrorists trial, Obama and Eric Holder, Left wing socialist agenda, Obama supporters, Forum on CIA waterboarding and America, Terrorist training camps

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 548
  To: Barack Obama and his cadre of left wing, socialist, anti Americans and Terrorists bent on killing America and Americans. Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear 1. Any attempts to turn the trial in NY City of 9/11 terrorists into a 3 ring circus and a forum on American interogation techniques or ...
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