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A federal court in New York issued a permanent injunction blocking the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA but the injunction was stayed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals pending appeal by the Obama administration. On July 17, 2013, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the district court's permanent injunction blocking the ...
The Feinstein-Lee Amendment that would have explicitly barred the military from holding American citizens and permanent residents in indefinite detention without trial as terrorism suspects was dropped on December 18, 2012, during the merging of the House and Senate versions of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. [71] [72] [73]
Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial.The Human Rights Watch considers this practice as violating national and international laws, particularly human rights laws, although it remains in legislation in various liberal democracies.
The justices will consider the federal government's appeal of a case brought by lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Struggling to address the sudden influx, the Obama administration built detention facilities to house migrant families. The move was unpopular at the time.
Obama) against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, in which Congress "affirms" presidential authority for indefinite detention under the AUMF and makes specific provisions as to the exercise of that authority.
The detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, remand prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. The length of detention of suspected terrorists , with the justification of taking an action that would aid counter-terrorism , varies according to country or situation, as well ...