Sentences with phrase «try terror suspects»
Eighteen senators, including two Democrats and one Independent, unveiled a bill Tuesday to withhold funding the President requested to try terror suspects in civilian courts.
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Some relatives of the 9/11 victims are opposed to the camp's closure, believing that it is a secure location to try terror suspects.
He became chief defense counsel for military commissions two years ago, according to the Herald, and he has since become a vocal critic of the war - court system set up to try terror suspects.
Not exact matches
Today's failed challenge is likely to impact upon the fate of the 15 other Algerian terror suspects who the government is trying to deport on the grounds of national security.
Israel uses military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, although according to the US Supreme Court, this is a proper interpretation of the rules of war and terror suspects are not entitled to further considerations.
Home Secretary Theresa May tried to appease potential rebels last night by unveiling proposals that would mean terror suspects can be stripped of British citizenship even if it leaves them stateless.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: «Liberty always said that terror suspects should be charged and tried.
The government is currently trying to push through measures that would extend the period terror suspects can be held without being charged.
Analysis: Home Office tried «to pull a fast one» on terror suspect lawyers.
The five 9/11 terror suspects will not be tried in civilian court in lower Manhattan, as was originally planned.
'' (T) error» examines the human costs of counterterrorism efforts on the homefront, as an FBI informant tries to befriend a terror suspect.
In a related story, the Supreme Court «agreed Monday to review a constitutional challenge to the Bush administration's military trials for foreign terror suspects, stepping into a high - stakes test of the president's wartime powers,» writes Gina Holland of The AP, in a report on four terror suspects (including Bin Laden's driver) who are to be tried in military court.