How To Use Detainee In A Sentence
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They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
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Prisons overbook for the same reason holiday camps do: to compensate for the inevitable number of detainees who fail to show up for confirmed reservations for one reason or another, or those who escape.
Welsh prisons overbooked
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The accounts have been based not only on the word of detainees, but of prison guards, translators, FBI agents and others.
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Is it only a war zone for constitutional suspension clause purposes if the detainee is accused of being involved with the localized conflict (this would follow with Eisentrager too)?
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base
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Torture of political detainees became widespread and systematic after the assassination of President Sadat in October 1981.
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Former detainees still campaigning for justice have also been singled out.
Times, Sunday Times
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The transfer could be the first of so-called high-level detainees - the five under consideration have been on a 2009 list of 48 determined by the administration to be "too dangerous to release," administration officials testified this week.
News - latimes.com
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Most of the detainees have been arrested on suspicion of illegal stay.
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Stacy Sullivan, another counterterrorism adviser with Human Rights Watch, said the Military Commissions Act is unclear on what happens if a guilty plea is allegedly coerced from a detainee.
Complete Disorder | ATTACKERMAN
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Previously, detainees have been hit or tortured during questioning, villagers say.
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The guards told her that they had caught, or almost caught, detainees sexually interfering with the child.
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KING: Senator Leahy, in the Boston Globe today, in an op-ed piece, you continue your effort to get what you call a commission of inquiry to look back into the practices, the detainee interrogation practices, what you call the torture committed during the Bush administration.
CNN Transcript May 3, 2009
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A former State Department official told the same committee last week that Addington and Yoo had been part of a group of six officials who "colluded" to develop a legal rationale for subjecting detainees to harsh treatment.
Torture? What's That?
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As to the latter, Judge Berzon in her opinion said, “Here, however, Coalition has not proven except by assertion that the remaining detainees have no relationship with anyone who could appropriately serve to litigate the legality of the detention.”
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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For example, a local doctor contracted to provide care to Woomera detainees noted that the dispensary at the camp did not fill at least one prescription he provided to an inmate because the drug was regarded as excessively expensive.
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As if that were not enough, it keeps its eye on the fate of political prisoners and other untried detainees in 65 countries and runs 16 major hospitals in Africa and Asia.
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Former detainees still campaigning for justice have also been singled out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees.
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Both essays question-beggingly describe the 375 detainees still being held at Guantanamo as “enemy combatants.”
It’s a Wonder It’s Not Michelin-Rated
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For some reason, the first people to start walking towards the centre bypassed the roadblock and headed cross-country, making a beeline for the fence closest to the place where detainees were protesting.
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If a detainee's family or associates somehow find out about the detention, they cannot publicly comment on it in any way.
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Whenever one person is lawfully in the custody of another, the custodian owes a duty of care to the detainee.
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That's why we are doing away with the poorly planned, haphazard approach that let those detainees go in the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees.
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Some counter-terrorism experts have raised questions about the significance of the Pentagon's figures, noting that the number of so-called "recidivist" detainees represents only a small portion, about 12 percent, of the approximately 520 detainees who have been released from Guantanamo since the detention facility was opened in January 2002.
Safe To Release?
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It is not acceptable to announce repeatedly to the world that we don't torture, that we abide by all our treaty obligations, and that we treat detainees "humanely" -- only to engage in secret waterboarding and hypothermia, based on equally secret legal determinations that construe the words "torture" and "humane" in an Orwellian fashion, that diminish treaty obligations down to nothing, and that assert a right of the President to ignore all statutory limits.
Balkinization
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The detainee handlers and the lawyers for detainees often flatly contradict each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manning could be given up to three hours of recreation time and allowed to interact with Leavenworth's eight other pre-trial detainees.
Pentagon to Transfer WikiLeaks Suspect to New Prison
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We refer here not only to the daily shootings, the bestialities inflicted on demonstrators and detainees and the vicious campaign of terror carried out against all who are opposed to the apartheid system - churchmen, whole religious communities, students, professors and teachers, workers, peasants, mothers and even children.
WE HAVE DECIDED TO LIBERATE OURSELVES
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According to the Office of Medical Services '(OMS) guidelines, these techniques were designed to "psychologically' dislocate 'the detainee, maximize his feeling of vulnerability and helplessness, and reduce or eliminate his will to resist our efforts to obtain critical intelligence.
Human Rights First: The Professionalization of Torture
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He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
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We were able to survive while some other detainees were killed in the prison.
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While the ruling may be a step forward for detainee rights in Maricopa County jails, it's hardly progress for Arizona as a whole.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed
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Also, Gates is "heartened" in terms of Afghanistan, where the Bush administration already returned around 500 detainees from Guantanamo to Afghan government custody — which has put about 200 on trial, with a "conviction rate about 80 percent.
Away From The Numbers | ATTACKERMAN
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There is no external scrutiny of their use, no limit on the length of time a detainee can spend there, and no way for detainees to appeal against their confinement.
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We then get homiletic lectures on the virtues of Shakespeare, English and the royal family before selected detainees launch spontaneously into a retelling of Pericles.
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Bybee was questioned on whether his office gave specific authorization for reported practices such as dousing detainees with water and repetitive noise or loud music to keep prisoners awake.
CIA Overreached On Terror Suspect Interrogations, Says Key Bush Lawyer
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Officials say some detainees go on and off hunger strike from time to time.
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Unrestricted: ICRC is allowed full access to talk to the detainee.
Inside Guantánamo
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I think HGilbert arrived with Anne at the important turns in the government's pursuit in the 4th court of an alient "student"; as the Rasul Scotus certification addresses and somewhat supersedes Eisentrager with respect to where the detainee is apprehended.
Balkinization
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The Detaining Power will reimburse the Accepting Power for the costs involved in maintaining prisoners of war, civilian internees, and civilian detainees transferred pursuant to this arrangement.
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Women's rights groups in Malaysia displayed outrage Wednesday at a court judge's ruling acquitting a policeman accused of raping two female detainees in a police lock-up.
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A third doc that I admired is Hot House, Shimon Dotan's Israeli feature about prisons for Palestinian political detainees in Israel.
GreenCine Daily: Park City Dispatch. 11.
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The tip-off has been heralded as a major intelligence coup, but the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group.
World Watch
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Manning will be held in a new medium-security facility that received its first prisoners in October and began accepting pre-trial detainees in January.
Pentagon to Transfer WikiLeaks Suspect to New Prison
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It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees.
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The government also plans to return suspects to countries that are known to torture detainees - providing it obtains assurances that the deportees will be safe.
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Camp Bucca, which has a maximum capacity of 6,000 detainees, is up to about 5,150.
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Nearly all of the detainees were released and deported, although only after months of cruel and demeaning treatment.
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He said the so-called seditious materials allegedly obtained from some of the detainees, were not illegal, and were merely
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The compensation offered to the innocent detainees by the West German government was "politically scandalous," says Berlin historian Meinhard Stark today.
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Nick Danger and I are trying to sort out how and if the determining of a detainee's status could be done; I suggested using the term detainee as a broad category rather than POW.
"And when the captured British sailor admits she 'trespassed' into Iranian waters, there is fear in her eyes."
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Restricted: ICRC is allowed to ask the detainee about health and welfare only.
Inside Guantánamo
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The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program.
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It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture, or serious ill-treatment.
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Some counter-terrorism experts, the magazine said, have raised questions about the significance of the Pentagon's figures, noting that the number of so-called "recidivist" detainees represents only a small portion, about 12 per cent, of the approximately 520 detainees who have been released from Guantanamo since the detention facility was opened in January 2002.
Daily News & Analysis
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Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity.
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The most vulnerable detainees, particularly the young, become severely disturbed, depressed and suicidal.
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That's why we are doing away with the poorly planned, haphazard approach that let those detainees go in the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there was still the problem of detainees and both sides seemed to hold a large number of prisoners.
Broken Lives
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Last year there were 10 break-outs and 33 unsuccessful escape attempts, each involving detainees prising open windows under cover of darkness.
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Military officials imposed the ban in mid-July after receiving what they called "credible allegations" that some detainees had been mistreated while in the custody of Gen. Abdul Razziq's forces.
U.S. Probes Afghan Abuse
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Detainees live absent any points of reference, the whole process is very slow, and that detainees have the feeling that they are living in limbo.
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But confidentiality has gotten the ICRC remarkable access and - as countless prisoners over the years have testified - has improved conditions for detainees of regimes not known for brooking public criticism.
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He says detainees were locked in their dongas, or cabins, for hours on end.
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The detainee handlers and the lawyers for detainees often flatly contradict each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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A U.S. official involved in overseeing the Guantanamo transfers said U.S. security officials receive regular reports from countries hosting transferred detainees.
Republicans Probe Gitmo Transfers to Europe
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At best, it will make some detainees feel better by letting them tell their side of the story.
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Straw has claimed that British consular staff were denied access to the detainees.
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Despite promises of police reform, police continue to use torture to intimidate, harass and humiliate women detainees to extract money or information.
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And when the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Geneva Conventions, which broadly prohibit all mistreatment of wartime detainees, applied to al-Qaeda, the OLC lawyers wrote still another secret opinion recommending that President Bush issue an executive order that would "authoritatively" establish that the CIA's tactics did not violate the laws of war — simply because the president said so.
The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers
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North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.
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The rest of the detainees wrote and signed a letter that they had witnessed the abuse, and went on a hunger strike.
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The four executive orders Obama signed on Thursday, the second day of his presidency, begin the process of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, require the CIA to comply with the Army Field Manual on Interrogations, close the CIA secret prisons known as "black sites" and allow International Committee of the Red Cross access to ensure that all U. S.-held detainees are being held in compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
JTA - Recent News
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This is not surprising when detainees are held in wire mesh cages measuring 9ft by 8ft and each prisoner is allowed only one hour outside his cell each week.
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Can you tell me about some of the experiences of the other detainees that you've talked to, people who were caught overstaying their visas?
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Lights are kept on round the clock, clothing is inadequate, and on cold days detainees are kept outside for an allowed daily hour in short-sleeved uniforms with no warm protective clothing like blankets, sweat shirts or jackets.
The Militarization and Annexation of North America
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When–and if–the truths about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be revealed in the way they should be, or Congress will step up and shoulder some of the blame, or the new Obama administration will have the courage to follow through substantially on its campaign promises with respect to GITMO, torture and the like, remains indeed to beseen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
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Federal forces routinely extort money from detainees' relatives as a condition for release.
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What its proposal, emailed to reporters a couple minutes ago, actually concerns is empaneling an investigation into abuses which may have been committed by U.S. officials or agents in connection with the U.S. response to the events of September 11, 2001, or in relation to alleged acts or threats against national security, and which at a minimum will investigate detentions, renditions and the alleged use of torture and other mistreatment of detainees.
13-Point Program To Destroy America | ATTACKERMAN
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The detainee and the detainer, they cannot deny their common past which they spent in the same boat.
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The administration's response was to "reinterpret" the Geneva Conventions in a way that no country has ever done before: they claimed that since their detainees did not represent a nation or an army, the Geneva Conventions simply did not apply to them.
Deborah Kory: Psychologists Aiding and Abetting Torture
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I personally have no issue with KSM, Abu Zubaydah, or any other detainee that was captured by the military overseas being tried in a military tribual, per se.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 19, 2010
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During our on-site inspection, they wandered about with too much unsupervised free access in the detainee area.
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And, remember, we're talking of finding out information instanter and not for detainees whose information can best be culled through soft soap methods.
Lionel: What Would You Not Do to Stop a Nuke?
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It looks as though the food given the detainees at Guantanamo is wholesome, nutritious and appealing.
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In some cases, the detainees have been subject to harassment by prison guards and rough treatment that has left them bloodied.
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The recently released Senate and Red Cross reports on detainee treatment provide uncontroverted evidence that the torture techniques advocated by the attorneys were used on human beings over an extended period of time.
Think Progress » Yoo: Congress Cannot Stop the President From Using Nukes
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The detainee did not resist when he was arrested and ‘behaved well’ during questioning, the sources said.
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At some point, the judiciary may need to get involved in that procedure to legitimize it and give the detainees some due process.
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But asylum seekers have been so demonized in Britain that all blame has gravitated to the detainees, who have been lumped together as ungrateful arsonists.
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Rather it appears to have been a concerted policy decision to use illegal techniques to acquire intelligence from detainees in violation of international standards.
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Hudson County was doing its best, Kennelly told me, to accommodate a recent request by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house these detainees.
Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard
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It is a facility where they keep the detainees who've been designated as eligible for trial.
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Recently, we prosecuted and received a guilty plea from a detainee – al-Marri – in federal court after years of legal confusion.
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One person who assisted CiA Inspector General John Helgerson with his probe was Mary O. McCarthy, who alleged CIA officials lied to members of Congress during an intelligence briefing when they said the agency did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story in The Washington Post.
Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines
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The cards are stacked against detainees in other ways too.
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The detainee who helped piece this together says the plot also targeted Britain.
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The detainees remain behind bars pending the government's appeal in October.
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The detainees include individuals suspected of involvement in armed opposition or non-violent anti-government activity.
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There were calls for political detainees to be freed and chants in support of the new opposition group, New Forum.
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Allowing detainees to talk may give them a chance to create and coordinate alibis and to corroborate or concoct stories to frustrate questioning attempts.
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Needless to say, the ex-detainee himself had no clue as to the reasons behind his arrest and confinement.
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But there was still the problem of detainees and both sides seemed to hold a large number of prisoners.
Broken Lives
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As Republicans tell it, anyone who votes against legalizing Bush's surveillance and detainee treatment programs is voting to '' coddle '' terrorists.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: House Set to Vote on Eavesdropping Bill
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You don't get involved in the mistreatment of detainees as an individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lot of them are scared to go" to Iraqi prisons, says Sgt 1st Class Penny Barber, a US military detainee specialist working in Diyala.
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The case of detainee Omar Khadr highlights how President Barack Obama has struggled to carry out a pledge he made immediately after taking office to close the globally unpopular military prison, which he called a recruiting tool for terrorists.
The Guardian World News
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Kennelly emphatically denied the claim made by some detainees in the Times article that the leaders of the hunger strike had been put into isolation or transferred to other, more distant detention centers.
Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard
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The country has been accused of a series of grisly human rights abuses, including torture, murder and boiling detainees alive.
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If only by chance, it would seem likely that some of the detainees might be terrorists.
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Others, including injecting detainees with mind-altering drugs and threatening subjects' families were deemed not acceptable, the Times article said.
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President Obama could learn a lesson from the Donatist heretics in how to handle government officials who were involved in the torture of detainees.
Bring Back Donatism! | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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When – and if – the truths about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be revealed in the way they should be, or Congress will step up and shoulder some of the blame, or the new Obama administration will have the courage to follow through substantially on its campaign promises with respect to GITMO, torture and the like, remains indeed to beseen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
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Last September the Center announced that a detainee had died in Juwaida Prison as a result of torture.
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Another former detainee was released with no money or food and spent yesterday alone and hungry in his empty accommodation.
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Reports of mistreatment have surfaced recently from detainees, released after a year in custody without charge.
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The most serious charge, that he "aided the enemy" by allowing unmonitored use of a cellphone by detainees, carries the death penalty.
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enteral" feedings of hunger-striking prisoners, which entails inserting a tube down the detainee's nose to his stomach to pump in a protein shake twice a day as the detainee is shackled to a chair and his head attached to a metal restraint with Velcro.
Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
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He set out four conditions for the easing of sanctions, including the release of hundreds of political detainees and free and fair elections.
Times, Sunday Times
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To prevent evidence of the ‘human shield’ internees who escaped but witnessed the massacres from coming into the public domain SL is tempted to drag out the release of these detainees much to the displeasure of the Indian public.
Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist
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To engage any detainer in such useless, if not dangerous, dialogue only enables a captor to spend more time with the detainee.
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The Supreme Court recently held that the Geneva Conventions apply to all U. S.-held detainees.
Human Rights First - Media Alerts
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Paint was peeling, floors had ingrained dirt, and all of the telephone rooms - very important for detainees' contact with the outside world - were in a disgraceful state.
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As the 17th day of protests continues in Egypt, the Guardian unveils an in-depth look at the accusations against the military's handling of anti-government detainees.
Chris Lee's Craigslist date talks; Egyptian army abuse; Fake Twitter accounts mock DC
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Consider the tremendous amount of ink spilled by bloggers on this and other sites (well, actually "ink" is not quite the right word) on the issue of torture and detainee mistreatment.
Balkinization
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• References to electrocution in the text and subheading of an article describing the treatment of detainees in Cairo should have been to electric shock.
Corrections and clarifications
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All of the detainees were imprisoned without charge, and the whereabouts of some of them are unknown.
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The court ruled that the detainees were legally analogous to German prisoners captured on the battlefield in World War II.
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Francis Burdett and William Mainwaring hinged on the former's exposure of abuses at the Cold Bath Fields 'prison, where unconvicted political detainees held after the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act were being treated the same as convicted felons.
Letter 90
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Posted in afghan detainees, afghanistan, general rick hillier, kandahar base, leak to Globe and Mail.
Detainee Transfer Details Leaked To Press « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Earlier this year it visited two New Jersey jails where most of the detainees are being held.
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A second report from April 2009 describes an Iraqi detainee as being covered in bruises and a scar from being bludgeoned with a pickax.
WikiLeaks Docs Raise Questions On Obama Policies
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The announcement of the release of detainees was also a hoax, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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The judge said none of the detainees had a reasonable expectation of privacy during the tribunals.
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He said facial injuries appeared to have been inflicted when the detainees were being held down or were "defenceless".
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Amnesty International opposes the detention without trial of all political detainees, including administrative detention.
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The agency has expressed interest in renting a facility near Chicago where it can incarcerate immigrant detainees awaiting deportation hearings.
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He said that existing detainees, whose tariffs had not yet expired, should make any representations that they wished to make to the Lord Chief Justice who would make recommendations to him.
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But the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group.
Source of Bomb-Plot Tip-Off Is Named
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Based on the detainee's folder, the knowledgeability brief and subsequent interrogations by JTF Guantánamo, the detainee is of high intelligence value to the United States.
Guantánamo Bay files: Children and senile old men among detainees
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They clash over the treatment and status of detainees held in detention centres.
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The detainee can make a formal complaint after release, but this offers little solace to the aggrieved individual.
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I'm remiss is not previously mentioning the KING 5 debate did not include any questions on terrorist detainee policy which Maria Cantwell voted against, or the terrorist surveillance program which earlier passed the House and will be before the Senate during its post-election lame duck session.
Sound Politics: Senate Race Roundup
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On multiple charges of killing civilians, the detainees allege they were retaliating for what they called targeting of civilians by the United States and its ally Israel in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
Raw Story
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It's abundantly clear that the problems with our treatment of POWs and other detainees in Iraq extends far beyond a handful of Reserve MPs operating as roque agents in a single cell block.
Archive 2004-05-01
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Additional concerns, which often compound the trauma of a sexual assault, include placement in long-term segregation or "protective custody"; inadequate medical care; and, in the case of transgender detainees, being housed with detainees of a gender with which they do not identify.
End ICE Abuse: Trauma Compounded: The Plight of LGBT Immigration Detainees
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In some cases, Egypt has often refused to acknowledge that detainees are in its custody.
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Every one of these detainees was either inadmissible to the United States or was deportable by virtue of immigration violations, and 505 of the 762 have in fact been deported.
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US military release 260 Iraqi detainees in the first week of Ramadan.
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With disgust, Arendt recalled the dehumanizing absurdity of practicing to shackle detainees, in preparation for the "big game" of shackling actual detainees.
General Strike USA: 9/11/08
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He was one of 16 former detainees of British citizenship who were awarded compensation this month.
Times, Sunday Times
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The detainees were incarcerated at a midwestern county juvenile detention center.
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Two months after Nick Clegg told MPs the coalition would deliver on its pledge to end the controversial practice, Damian Green, the immigration minister, has revealed that the government only intended to "minimise" the number of child detainees.
Government climbdown on detention of children in immigration centres
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In some instances, detainees have been severely punished for complaining or protesting about the conditions inside the camps.
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The detainee, who is referred to as DAT 326, told the U.S. soldiers how he had been abused for hours by his Iraqi captors - a claim backed by a U.S. medical exam.
Latimes.com - News
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Five years ago this week, the first plane load of detainees arrived at the soon-to-be infamous Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
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Navy Captain John Murphy, the lead prosecutor, told the court it was standard practice for the guards to "peruse" written material after a detainee spoke with his attorneys "for force protection.
David Danzig: Khadr Case Goes Nowhere at Gitmo (Again)
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The protesters, who stated that they entered the camp's outer perimeter to conduct interviews with detainees, described the breakout as a spontaneous action initiated by the asylum seekers.
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US INTELLIGENCE personnel ordered military dog handlers to use unmuzzled dogs to intimidate detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, according to The Washington Post.
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The Saudi Arabian authorities regularly hold detainees incommunicado, when they are frequently tortured and otherwise ill - treated.
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One detainee died of hypothermia after being shackled to a concrete floor by an incompetent and unsupervised junior officer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not, however, specify the charges, which include maltreating detainees and dereliction of duty.
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In addition, we strongly recommend better monitoring of all detainees.
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The families of the eight detainees were forced to join the exodus.
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Damian Green, the immigration minister, has revealed that the government only intended to "minimise" the number of child detainees.
Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
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Human Rights Watch claims in a press release that at least one "recidivist" GTMO detainee counted in the Pentagon’s "recidivism" report confessed to his post-GTMO crimes after they were beaten out of him:
Forced Confessions and ‘Recidivism’ | ATTACKERMAN
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LA Times: Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: June 16, 2009
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His office had frequently pushed the executive branch towards greater moderation in counterterrorism policies, using the threat of Supreme Court setbacks to make policymakers think about detainee access to counsel, for example, and the end-game for long-term military detentions of citizens.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic
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The released detainees and their parents expressed their appreciation to the SEP for the campaign waged on their behalf.
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Seven other detainees were stripped and built into a ‘human pyramid’ after being suspected of instigating a riot.
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If Obama more fully declassifies Helgerson's report, the new information also might undercut Cheney's claim that the harsh interrogation of "high-value" detainees produced valuable intelligence, thwarted pending terrorist plots against the United States and saved "hundreds of thousands of lives.
Secret CIA File Tests Obama's Pledge
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They interceded with the authorities on behalf of the detainees.
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Military hearings are under way at the camp to ascertain whether detainees should continue to be held.
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The result is that the detainees are exploiting this asymmetry to run rings round their captors.
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Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones.
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The detainee has notice of the grounds for his detention and an opportunity to be heard at a ‘meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.’
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Mr. Kennedy will probably get to cast the deciding vote in a host of so-called litmus-test cases this fall, and most prominent among them could be the court's revisiting of detainee rights at Guantanamo Bay.
All Eyes Are Again
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It included: ‘Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees.’
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He is also charged with assault for allegedly striking detainees - and ordering detainees to strike each other.
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It has been decided to alleviate the condition of interrogators by lengthening the chain in such a manner that the interrogee will be able to place his hands by the side of his body in a more comfortable manner, without this impairing the security of the interrogators or increasing the risk that the detainee will escape from custody.
Israeli Use of Painful Shackling As A Form of Torture
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When his self-imposed deadline passed on Jan. 22, there were still 196 detainees housed in at the prison.
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Red tape now entangles the interrogation process, and detainees know that their adversaries' hands are tied.
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Guards didn't go through the prison camps Wednesday and unpin the presidential closure order from detainee bulletin boards.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 19, 2009
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Once we returned to base camp, we handed any contraband or detainees over to the S2 and debriefed our soldiers, especially those on the assault force.
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Nearly all of the 100,000-plus detainees are able-bodied people of breadwinning age who have, we can assume, a number of dependent family members.
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If they inform a detainee's family or the media about the detention, they face up to five years in jail.
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Also, the government can eavesdrop on any kind conversations these detainees have with their lawyers.
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Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees.
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The guard is also charged with later bashing the detainee while handcuffed to a bed.
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At one stage, more than 100 detainees were refusing to eat in protest at being held at the detention facility.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end of the service, a riot broke out and demonstrators together with detainees managed to breach the security fence.
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As Bermudians continue to react - unfavourably for the most part - to their government's acceptance of former Guantanamo Bay detainees as full citizens of the tiny island, bloggers comment on yesterday's protest and what the public outcry could mean for the nation's Premier.
Global Voices in English » Bermuda: Guantanamo Protest
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Former detainees interviewed for the report stated that, both under the Bush and Obama administrations, they were held in excessively cold isolation cells; supplied inappropriate or inadequate food, bedding and blanketing; denied exposure to natural light; unable to carry out their religious duties; restricted from exercise; and kept from meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Jonathan Horowitz: Bagram's Evil Twin
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Liberals hail detainee deal, dismiss NDP objections as 'horsefeathers'
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Other pressures facing children in detention are the ongoing exposure to trauma of parents and siblings, witnessing acts of violence between officers and detainees, self-harm, mutilation and attempted hangings.
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The detainee can make a formal complaint after release, but this offers little solace to the aggrieved individual.
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Another unknown, a part of the fabric of the foregoing four, was the sheer incompetence involved in cataloging and maintaining the pertinent factors surrounding the detainees that might be relevant in any eventual legal proceedings, whether in an established court system or even in a kangaroo court that pretended to at least a few of the essentials, such as evidence.
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Under a hazy sky, detainees rushed to the edge of concertina wire fences, their raggedy clothes flapping in the wind, many giving thumbs-down gestures to the convoy.
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When detained immigrants do find lawyers, confinement makes the detainees more difficult to represent.