News & Commentary about Detention

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Apr 18, 2018
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Forcibly Send a Detained US Citizen to Another Country

Jan 31, 2018
Trump Embraces the Original Sin of Guantánamo

Jan 5, 2018
ACLU Will Represent an American Citizen in U.S. Military Detention Abroad

Dec 22, 2017
The Trump Administration Might Be Trying to Strip the Citizenship of an American Detainee Held in Secret

Dec 1, 2017
The Trump Administration Just Admitted a Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But It Won’t Give Him One

Nov 14, 2017
At Guantánamo, a Death Penalty Case Without a Death Penalty Lawyer

Nov 3, 2017
The Trump Administration Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges

Sep 22, 2017
What Are the Rights of an American Captured Fighting for ISIS?