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North Korea Confirms Detainment of American Citizen
By not in system - AOL NewsSEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea confirmed Thursday that it is preparing to indict an American who was reportedly arrested for proselytizing. Jun Young Su has been held since November last year, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said. The report did not state what crime he was accused of, but South Korean media have reported an American was detained for spreading Christianity. He is the latest U.S. citizen to be detained in the reclusive communist state in recent years. North Korea informed Washington of the detention and Jun has been given access to Swedish Embassy officials ...
Report: Libya Releases 3 Captured Journalists
By not in system - AOL NewsTRIPOLI, Libya -- Agence France Presse said the Libyan government released on Wednesday three journalists captured last week near a key eastern city that has been a daily battleground between Moammar Gadhafi's forces and Libyan rebels. The AFP reported the three were freed in Tripoli. The journalists are reporter Dave Clark, 38, and photographer Roberto Schmidt, 45, both of whom work for AFP; and Joe Raedle, 45, a photographer for Getty Images. ...
4 Captured New York Times Journalists Released From Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsRAS AJDIR, Tunisia -- Four New York Times journalists who were held captive in Libya for six days were freed Monday by authorities and crossed the border into Tunisia, the newspaper said. Reporter Anthony Shadid, photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario and videographer Stephen Farrell left Libya at the dusty border crossing into Tunisia that has been used by tens of thousands of people fleeing violence. The New York Times / AP Four New York Times journalists -- photographer Lynsey Addario, top left, reporter Stephen Farrell, photographer Tyler Hicks, bottom ...
What Now for Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWhen Congress passed the latest defense appropriations bill Wednesday, it also may have ended any chance that there will be a federal criminal trial soon for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Thirteen months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the key 9/11 planner would be tried for terrorism, murder and conspiracy in Lower Manhattan, Congress formally banned any such trial for the confessed al-Qaeda chief or any of the other prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Lawmakers also forbade the Pentagon transfer of the Gitmo prisoners to the United States for any other ...
Obama May Order Indefinite Detention for Some Gitmo Prisoners
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWith legislation pending in Congress that would preclude the transfer of terror-law detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States for trial or incarceration, the White House reportedly has prepared an executive order that would authorize indefinite detention for dozens of the prisoners there who have been deemed too dangerous to release and too risky to try in federal civilian court or by military commission. At the same time, the draft order -- the existence of which was first reported by the Washington Post and ProPublica -- would evidently grant the detainees additional ...
Battle of the Branches: Tough Times for Separation of Powers
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyLast week generated an unusual confluence of legal stories that together highlight the fragility of the constitutional (and practical) walls designed to separate the functions of the different branches of government. In each instance, functionaries of one branch poached on territory set aside for another; in each case, there was a swift reaction from tribunes defending their turf. Part One: Legislative encroachment upon traditional executive power. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder blasted federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives for passing legislation that would block ...
State Secrets: Protecting National Security or Justice Denied?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn 2002, Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian now living in England, claims he was arrested in Pakistan, turned over to the CIA, flown to Morocco and handed off to Moroccan police. Mohamed asserts that interrogators held him for 18 months and subjected him to torture. According to the New York Times, this included "cutting his penis with a scalpel and pouring a hot, stinging liquid on the open wounds." Eventually he was flown to a secret prison in Afghanistan where, Mohamed said, he was "held in continuous darkness, fed sparsely and subjected to loud noise -- like the recorded screams of women and ...
Inside the Guantanamo Detention Facility: A Slideshow Look
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Today, 181 prisoners remain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, despite the Obama administration's initial pledge to close the facility by this past January. The administration plans to move some detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in northern Illinois. The rest have either received a recommendation for release from the Department of Justice or would be transferred overseas. But the planning process has been slowed by the need to get congressional funding for the purchase of the new facility and by complaints from human rights groups. They argue that relocation ...
Ruling: Bagram Detainees Cannot Use US Courts
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (May 21) -- Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo Bay have, a federal appeals court ruled today. The United States is holding the detainees at the military prison on Afghan territory through a cooperative arrangement with Afghanistan, three appeals court judges said in a unanimous decision turning aside the request of a Tunisian and two Yemeni prisoners. The jurisdiction of the U.S. courts does not extend to foreigners held at Bagram in the Afghan theater of war, added the judges, who ...
50 Guantanamo Detainees Will Be Held Without Trial
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Obama administration has decided to hold 50 detainees without trial because it considers them too dangerous to release and too difficult to try, the New York Times reports. As the administration sorts through the remaining 200 prisoners and moves toward its goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, it has divided them into several groups. About 110 detainees will be repatriated or transferred to other facilities, another 40 will be prosecuted for terrorism, and 50 will be held without trial.The decision comes from a task force President Obama created shortly after his inauguration to ...
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