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...Hofstra and a longtime adviser to lawyers representing prisoners at Guantánamo. "Everyone who believes that America is a country devoted to the rule of law should celebrate because this ruling says that the Executive needs to be accountable to a neutral judicial forum in its decisions to imprison people - and that is the basic restraint on tyranny that animated the American Revolution...
...infamous name: the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. After a series of bills, the Military Commission Acts was adopted in 2006 and gave the U.S. President absolute powers to label a non-American citizen an enemy of the state, imprison him without charging him with a crime, and deny him the right to due process. In view of the fact that this act is obvious breach of the Bill of Rights, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has called it a rejection of core American values. Since this does...
...military junta that preceded Samak's ruling coalition. He has declared a no-holds-barred battle against Thailand's drug dealers, a fight that echoes a previous campaign by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the man widely considered to be Samak's political overlord. Samak has even vowed to imprison illegal immigrants who are members of a Burmese minority group on a deserted island if they insist on fleeing to Thailand because of alleged human-rights abuses back home. But this week, Samak found a new enemy: Thai fortuneteller Varin Buaviratlert, who predicted last Friday that the current government would...
Jaehn compared Harvard’s methods to “fog and night” tactics—referencing a Nazi directive to imprison political activists—and said Harvard seeks to distract the community from taking action by engaging them with empty dialogue...
Phillippa Neal, 19, lives in the same on-campus housing as Bilawal. She says he was not accompanied by any security at Oxford. According to Neal, Bilawal posted a statement from his mother the day of her assassination, which read: "You can imprison a man but not an idea. You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an idea. - Benazir Bhutto." The day of the assassination his Facebook status read: "Well behaved women rarely make history." Neal is not sure whether that quote was portentous or posted after Benazir's assassination...