Indefinite Detention

09/21/2012

Guantánamo

Government Releases List of Prisoners Approved for Transfer from Guantánamo

By Zachary Katznelson, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project at 4:36pm

Today, just weeks after the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the information, the government released the names of 55 of the prisoners approved for transfer from the prison at Guantánamo Bay. The prisoners were unanimously designated for transfer by President Obama’s inter-agency Guantánamo Bay Review Task Force, which announced a summary of its findings in January 2010. But before today, the government had said the list could not be released because doing so would hamper efforts to repatriate and resettle prisoners in other countries.

02/28/2012

NDAA

Will Congress Finally Start to Clean Up the Mess It Made With the NDAA?

By Chris Anders, Senior Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 12:16pm

Tell Congress that Americans reject indefinite military detention without charge or trial, and we expect Congress to fix the mess it's made.

09/29/2009

Indefinite Detention

Closing Guantánamo: Not Just When, But How

By Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 11:51am

Since last Thursday's ProPublica and Washington Post article about the unlikelihood of the Obama administration meeting its own goal (PDF) of shuttering Guantánamo by January 22, 2010, Gitmo has constantly been in the news.

With all the discussion, it's important to reiterate that how Guantánamo will be closed is just as important as when.

09/29/2009

Indefinite Detention

Closing Guantánamo: Not Just When, But How

By Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 11:51am

With all the discussion, it's important to reiterate that how Guantánamo will be closed is just as important as when.

07/10/2009

Indefinite Detention

Time to Practice What We Preach

By Nahal Zamani, Human Rights Program at 2:57pm

As President Obama travels overseas, it is a good time to remember the United States’ potential to lead by example. Today, the ACLU ran an ad in the daily Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, asking President Obama to restore American values of justice.

07/10/2009

Indefinite Detention

Time to Practice What We Preach

By Nahal Zamani, Human Rights Program at 2:57pm

02/18/2009

Indefinite Detention

Just Say "No" to Indefinite Detention

By Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 2:39pm

This week's New Yorker features a story by the incomparable Jane Mayer about the ACLU's case on behalf of Ali al-Marri, which will be heard by the Supreme Court in April, barring any Obama administration actions like dropping the "enemy combatant" classification and reclassifying, charging him as a civilian, and renouncing the asserted executive detention power.

02/18/2009

Indefinite Detention

Just Say "No" to Indefinite Detention

By Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 2:39pm

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