Posts tagged: habeas corpus
Tell Congress To Undo The NDAA, Ban Indefinite Military Detention Of Americans
President Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law despite startling provisions that will allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens. It’s a travesty, defying basic principles of justice and due process in perhaps the most extreme respect our nation has ever seen.
Thankfully, several lawmakers are keeping up the fight. Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation to undo these provisions of the NDAA, in the form of the Due Process Guarantee Act. We need to urge other Senators to support it.
So we would continue to indefinitely detain non-citizens — hmm.
Click the image to go to DemandProgress’s petition page.
More evidence that many of the people held in the Guantánamo Bay detention center for the past 6 or 7 years are innocent.
An US federal appeal court has blocked a judge’s order that 17 Chinese detainees at the Guantanamo Bay camp should immediately be released.