Sentences with phrase «us military detention»

In April 1986, according to the Christic Institute lawsuit, President Reagan issued a top - secret National Security Decision Directive, which authorized the creation of ten military detention centers within the United States capable of housing 400,000 political prisoners.

A State Department spokesman resigned after saying the treatment of Wikileaks suspect Pfc. Bradley Manning in military detention has been «ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.»

Human rights groups claim most have been held in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions in military detention facilities, without access to lawyers or ever having appeared in court.

Next to Wuhayshi and Raymi, the group's military commander, in the same video sat the new deputy leader, Said Ali al - Shihri, a Saudi national who was released from the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in November 2007.

Those in military detention facilities should be released and corpses of those killed be handed over to us for befitting Islamic burials.

Many ended up at a special military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

After AAAS matched Simmons with Amnesty International, she collaborated with the human rights organization on several projects, including an investigation of deaths during military detention in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Nigeria: Babies and children dying in military detention.

However, President Barack Obama has previously threatened to veto it over a clause relating to the military detention of suspected terrorists.

Addressing issues such as the politics of institutionalized care in hospitals and military detention centers, the FDA's ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, and the challenges posed by medical treatments of cancer and HIV, In the Power of Your Care proposes that health care as a human right can be upheld through community - based efforts and policy change.

These appeals related to the lawfulness of the detention of two Afghan men by HM forces, considering how far ECHR, art 5 applies to cases of military detention in non-Convention countries.

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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.

This study, combined with two internal military reports on the mental health of troops and interviews with two former Guantanamo guards, show that the invisible wounds of war largely associated with combat - related deployments also affected troops who worked at the detention facility.

Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

A human rights activist at the time, he was arrested by the military in 1977 and suffered 14 months of clandestine detention during which he was tortured severely.

These detention centers were to be used «in the event that President Reagan chose to declare a «State of Domestic National Emergency» concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation into Central America.

Nigeria, the most populous black African country, has had a particularly sad history of press repression, particularly under the former military junta headed by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, whose infamous Decree Number 4 against criticism of the government was the pretext for a number of detentions of journalists, some of whom died under mysterious circumstances.

The Pope has celebrated Mass at a former military base in Chile that not only lies on land contested by the indigenous Mapuche people, but was also a detention centre used during the country's brutal dictatorship.

As Lira points out, the creation of the commission became possible because of Pinochet's detention in England, the subsequent stripping of his immunity in Chile, and the formal dialogue opened up in Chile between the military and civil society.

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

In September 1862, he authorized the military arrest, detention, and punishment of «aiders and abettors» of the South, including «all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to Rebels against the authority of the United States.»

Because of her efforts to bring democracy to military - ruled Burma, Suu Kyi spent most of the last 20 years in detention or under house arrest.

This is equally following the killing of eight members of the the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB in Aba by the military during their peaceful protest over the continued detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu on Monday,

There have also been military commission cases since Padilla, but they go to the question of the proper scope and process to apply in military commissions of enemy combatants imposing some punishment beyond indefinite detention as a quasi-prisoner of war for the duration of the war on terrorism authorized by the AUMF.

Military Intelligence arrested and transferred Tariq to their detention centre in the Jneid compound in Nablus, where he remains in detention.

An attorney for a man accused of helping plan the Sept. 11 attacks says a military commission judge has denied a defense motion to allow the Guantanamo Bay detainee to distribute art he makes while in detention.

Sri Lanka to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and establish an effective torture prevention programme including extensive training within the military, police and intelligence services and measures to enable independent national and international monitors to make regular unannounced inspections of any place of detention including unofficial detention facilities.

There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens» privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement

Recall that has been pro-El-Zakzaky protests across the country since his arrest with his wife and detention by the DSS December 2016 following a bloody clash with the military in 2016 in Zaria, Kaduna State.

Detention without trial, almost all through the war, by the Gowon Federal Military Government.

«He was in the vanguard, as a chieftain of the OPC, in the confrontation with the military, during the June 12 struggle, to reclaim the mandate given to our son, Chief Abiola, which earned him series of detentions by the authorities.»

«Detaining Nigerians for weeks without trial is a clear return of Decree 2, with which President Buhari hounded Nigerians in detention when he was a military dictator and we in the Ekiti State House of Assembly will continue to support our leader and Governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose in his fight against tyranny.

Home» Education» Kogi ASUP decries alleged military invasion of school, detention of over 500 students

The outcome of the report led to the indictment, arrests, detentions and prosecutions of former defence and service chiefs, military top brass and politicians in the country.

This is because the Movement has credible evidence that a large number of its members are still in detention in military facilities and detention centers.

The lawyer, who noted his role in the enthronement of democratic rule in Nigeria, including his malicious prosecution and detention for over six months by the military junta, claimed that Buhari had upon taking office reorganised the EFCC to hound the opposition.

It could be recalled that the late Bashorun MKO Abiola was the winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections in Nigeria; an election universally acclaimed as the freest, fairest and most credible in the political annals of Nigeria but was ironically annulled by the military high command under Gen Ibrahim Babangida MKO Abiola was later hounded into detention by the military junta under Gen Sanni Abacha, where he later died for refusing to renounce his electoral mandate

Serving as producers are Orwa Nyrabia, co-founder of Syria's documentary fest, DOX BOX, whose detention by military authorities in August - September of 2012 drew the attention of the international film community; and Ventana Film's Hans Robert Eisenhauer, a Sundance alum as executive producer of both SINS OF MY FATHER (2010) and WHY WE FIGHT (2005) for ZDF / ARTE.

Rwanda: Shrouded in secrecy: Illegal detention and torture by military intelligence.

The island, a California Historical Landmark, [1] has been used for a variety of purposes, including military forts, a US Public Health Service Quarantine Station, and a US Bureau of Immigration inspection and detention facility.

[7][8] After a clandestine round - up of arrests and detentions by the Military Governor, the Autonomous District of Ponta Delgada was extinguished, along with the other districts (Horta and Angra do Heroísmo) on 22 August 1975, with the establishment of the Junta Regional dos Açores (Regional Junta of the Azores), the provisional government that assumed the competencies of the administration during the region's transition to constitutional autonomy.

The fort had never been under attack and was later converted into military housing, detention barracks and turned into a National historic site and museum in 1970 under the National Parks Service.

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.

Viola's convulsive images, foreshadowing both the sensory torture techniques employed by the US military at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and the millennial omnipresence of electronic screens, portray the nightmare of sleep as sleep perennially deferred.

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.

Teesdale has released a short documentary video in which, on a beach in Guantanamo bay, he explains that hospital worker and teacher Adel Hamad has been held for years in detention and denied release even after a member of the military tribunal reviewing his case called his incarceration «unconscionable.»

He now faces a hearing by a military commission after spending five years in the Guantanamo detention centre.

This exercise emerged from the concern that there was no single, publicly disclosable document that set out how UK military personnel and intelligence officers were to proceed when engaging with foreign States on the question of the detention and interrogation of individuals held in foreign custody.

In some instances, the detention was pursuant to sentences imposed by military tribunals for alleged offenses, death being the penalty in one.

Federal law does make it a crime and authorize indefinite detention or death under military discretion, for being a member of certain terrorist organizations identified in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) since the United States has declared war on those organimilitary discretion, for being a member of certain terrorist organizations identified in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) since the United States has declared war on those organiMilitary Force (AUMF) since the United States has declared war on those organizations.