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Habeas Corpus Defined
Latin: a court petition which orders that a person being detained be produced before a judge for a hearing to decide whether the detention is lawful. Habeas corpus was one of the concessions the British Monarch made in the Magna Carta and has stood as a basic individual right against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.
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Honduras: Intimidation of media workers and protestors rising
Published July 5, 2009, 12:26 am, Amnesty International
Amnesty International denounced an escalation in human rights abuses in Honduras and urged the security forces to respect the rule of law and human rights when the President returns to Honduras at the weekend.
HC dismisses Empire's plea against deadline
Published July 3, 2009, 6:25 pm, The Times of India
The high court on Friday dismissed the petition filed by Empire Hotels, challenging the May 19 order of the police commissioner fixing midnight as closure deadline.
Terrorist Watch: 23 Plots Foiled Since 9/11
Published July 2, 2009, 12:27 pm, Heritage Foundation
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 23 terrorist plots against the United States have been foiled.
Will Obama violate the spirit of the Fourth?
Published July 2, 2009, 9:35 am, The Christian Science Monitor
He has bought into the Bush-era detention of terror suspects with no trial. That won't keep America safe.
To Critics, New Policy on Terror Looks Old
Published July 2, 2009, 6:08 am, New York Times
Obama administration officials see a fundamental difference between their approach and George W. Bush’s. Civil libertarians disagree.
To Critics, New Policy on Terror Looks Old
Published July 2, 2009, 5:28 am, CommonDreams.org
by Charlie Savage WASHINGTON - Civil libertarians recently accused President Obama of acting like former President George W. Bush, citing reports about Mr. Obama's plans to detain terrorism suspects without trials on domestic soil after he closes the Guantánamo prison. It was only the latest instance in which critics have argued that Mr. Obama has failed to live up to his campaign pledge "to ...
Judge keeps South Bend teen in foster care :Father who petitioned to have case reviewed disappointed.
Published July 2, 2009, 4:14 am, South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND -- Walter Jennings had hoped that Wednesday would mean his youngest son could finally come home.
Will Obama violate the spirit of the Fourth?
Published July 2, 2009, 2:00 am, The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
Soon after taking up his White House tasks, the idealistic Barack Obama of the 2008 campaign got mugged by the reality of being America's commander in chief.
Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them
Published July 1, 2009, 11:26 pm, The Prairie Advocate
"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army.
Court Should Suppress Evidence Obtained Through Torture in Jawad Habeas Case, Says ACLU
Published July 1, 2009, 3:00 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court to suppress all evidence obtained through torture and other coercion in the habeas corpus case challenging the unlawful detention of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad. The judge in Jawad's military commission proceedings previously suppressed statements made by Jawad to Afghan and U.S. officials following his arrest, finding that ...
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- BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | A brief history of habeas corpus
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- Guantanamo Unclassified: Video about the story of Adel Hamad, husband and father, aid worker and teacher, that was detained at Guantanamo Bay in 2003.
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