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...from civil libertarians to local politicians, is the pictures taken by the police. The A.C.L.U. is considering suing the police department if it continues the candid shots. Says one of the group's directors, Barry Steinhardt: "The premise of the Fourth Amendment is that you don't question people, detain them--and you certainly don't take photos and enter them into a database--unless you have reasonable cause...
...Votes will never detain me. This is my city and I love it,” Galluccio told a stunned, silent crowd. “I’m not through with...
...United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more than 1,200 people in the U.S., Americans and foreign nationals, in the name of the war against terrorism. Most were picked up on immigration violations, their hearings closed to the press and the public. About two dozen (including Padilla) were detained as material witnesses in grand jury investigations, a rare...
...Afghanistan. The Iranian authorities knew that information gained from the men would be handed to America, said Saud. CHINA Political Shrinks China has revived the use of psychiatry for repression, said Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental group based in New York City. China's abuse of psychiatry to detain and institutionalize its political opponents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, the report said. After declining from a peak in the 1960s, political psychiatry has been revived as a result of the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect. A Hong Kong court found...
...Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...