Sentences with phrase «ghraib military prison»

In March, 2011, the President signed an executive order that would «create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security,» commented The Washington Post.

But her experience of suffering, largely in silence, was hardly unique among the 28,000 troops who have served at the U.S. military prison since it opened in 2002 to indefinitely detain captives in the «war on terror.»

She was then transferred to a Kansas military prison.

The move marks the first time under President Donald Trump that a detainee has left the military prison.

For example, in the email newsletter from May 17 of this year, the release of Chelsea Manning from military prison was compared to «when your friend asks what time you can get drinks after work... «I'll be free earlier than expected.»»

The Trump administration has repatriated a longtime inmate at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to Saudi Arabia, where he will serve out the remainder of his 13 - year sentence in connection with a 2002 attack on a French ship, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

If we want to liken what Jesus did to a movie, it is not a «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene we should imagine, but Chuck Norris breaking Prisoners of War out of a military prison camp — except without all the shooting and killing.

Documents detailing the inner workings of the Guantanamo military prison camp have leaked, and some of the contents are pretty disturbing.

When he tried to buy guns after his release from a military prison, his conviction was not in the database used to conduct background checks, and the purchases went through.

We serve proudly in the Israel Defense Forces — as do those soldiers who choose, out of conscience, to sit in a military prison rather than serve in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today.

In this century, two Hutterite young men died from mistreatment in military prison for refusing to wear the army uniform during World War I. People were tarred and feathered for refusing to buy Liberty Bonds.

David Mike, a Nebraska dad who had been incarcerated in a military prison for dishonorable desertion.

They have thrown over 8,000 people in military prisons, and have even turned their tanks and guns on peaceful demonstrators at Maspero.

Meanwhile, political and legal activists urged him to use his position to free those in military prisons since 2011, that is, to begin what might resemble a transitional justice process earnestly.

After seven years in military prison for carrying out one of the largest leaks in US history and coming out as a transgender woman, Chelsea Manning is embarking on the next stage in her epic journey: running for a seat in the US Senate in Maryland.

As one of his very first acts as president, Obama signed an executive order to close the military prison for terror suspects within a year.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called together several top administration officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, to consider what to do with the detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

I was happier right there in a military prison, with nothing, than I'd ever been in my life.

He hadn't thought everything through well enough, as on his return to base, he was sent to military prison for a week as a result.

Court - martialed and stripped of his rank, Irwin has been sentenced to the maximum - security military prison, which is run with an iron fist by its warden, Colonel Winter.

The men are then assigned new duties as guards at a military prison, and much as they showed a troubling enthusiasm for assaulting women at home, they clearly enjoy heaping abuse on the prisoners they're supposed to watch until their actions become a clear parallel to the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib.

Robert Redford (The Horse Whisperer, Sneakers) plays Irwin, a three - star general who ends up in a military prison due to costing the lives of his men in the line of battle presumably unnecessarily.

The other is the warden of a military prison — never in actual combat — who does everything to keep from making a single mistake.

February 20, 2018 • The U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is ready to accept more captives who may be sent there under President Trump's newly signed order to keep the prison open.

That Oscar - nominated, Jack Nicholson - starring film followed two Navy Men who escort an offending enlisted man to military prison but decide to show him a good time along the way.

THE LAST CASTLE (Grade: B): In this muddled but mostly compelling prison drama / action thriller, Robert Redford is very good as a defrocked three - star Army general doing hard time in a military prison who uses his West Point values to challenge the authority of a corrupt warden (James Gandolfini).

Irwin is a three star general, court martialed and sentenced to ten years at the Castle, a military prison run by Winter.

Most famous as the site of a federal prison, Alcatraz Island was first a military fortress, home to the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast in the mid 1850's, and a military prison for prisoners of the Civil and Spanish American Wars.

In 1907, Alcatraz became Pacific Branch, U.S. Military Prison, and two years later the Army began construction of what was to become the largest steel reinforced concrete structure in the world; the new cellhouse opened in 1912.

The large - scale sculpture, sound, and mixed - media works will be installed in the two - story New Industries Building, where «privileged» inmates were permitted to work; the main and psychiatric wards of the Hospital; the A Block cells, the only remaining section of the military prison that was constructed in the early 20th century; and the Dining Hall.

The site - specific installations are located in the two - story New Industries Building where «privileged» inmates were permitted to work; the Hospital main ward and psychiatric observation cells; A Block, the only cellblock not remodeled since the military prison was constructed in the early 20th century; and the Dining Hall.

The interesting thing is that the museum was first housed in what was once San Jose's old military prison called Central Penitentiary.

Given a choice of words like Bush, Iraq, and evil, could I help mistaking a «multi-disciplinary room» and a dark cellar for a military prison?

Works such as We Die Out of Hand (2007) reference the fringe - effects of global war states, the military prisons and covert operations such as Guantanamo.

Currently, there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, 79 Indian Country jails, military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in U.S. territories.

He was the first AP photographer to cover the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in 2002 he traveled to Kandahar to photograph families of the Guantánamo inmates.

In 2016, artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan began an acoustic investigation into Sayndaya, a Syrian military prison north of Damascus.

In the June 13 speech to the American Constitution Society, Holder called Guantanamo an «international embarrassment» and said the next president must close the detention facility and transfer prisoners to military prisons.

His sentence was 23 years in military prison.

That is the question Lyle Denniston asked Friday at SCOTUSblog, as another round of decisions from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals failed to address the cases involving the legal rights of foreign nationals being held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

On rehearing en banc, the 4th Circuit says it has no jurisdiction to consider appeals by Iraqis who were detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib military prison and elsewhere and whose tort claims against defendant government contractors were partly dismissed...

For example, the President would be entirely within his rights to order General A to report to the Barracks at Fort Levenworth (a military prison) or to a maintenance detail in a South Korean Army base, as active duty personnel individual assigned to that duty (i.e. not detained as a prisoner) and to await further orders.

The small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1934 until 1963.

(Bloomberg)-- Getting long - struggling Sears to stop bleeding cash has been about as easy as closing the U.S. military prison in Cuba, according to Chief Executive Officer Edward Lampert...

Not exact matches

As the Times puts it, Attorney General Eric Holder now has to decide «whether to seek an indictment that could send the pre-eminent military officer of his generation to prison.»

Throughout her time in prison, Manning's lawyers fought to give her access to drugs for gender dysphoria and have the military refer to her by female pronouns.

Su Bin, a 51 - year - old Chinese businessman, was charged with a prison term of 46 months after pleading guilty to trying to illegally acquire secrets from the United States military.

Canadian and Malaysian officials met briefly with Pakistan's deposed leader, Nawaz Sharif who has been charged by the new military government with treason - a charge which could result in life in prison or death.

Generally, the military is required to report felony - equivalent court - martial convictions for crimes that are punishable by more than one year in prison, and any convictions for domestic violence.

So it covers about 87 percent of the country's population, excluding people in rural areas and those in the military and in prison.