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Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued
detention
of a dozen Lebanese Shiites – some close to Nasrallah – by opposition forces in Syria.
But when it comes to education, many countries in the West are more interested in building walls and
detention
camps than schools.
In Eritrea, it is reported that 2,000-3,000 Christians are in detention, and that many have been tortured.
Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus – the principle that detainees are entitled to challenge their
detention
in a court of law – during the Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese-American citizens during the early days of World War II.
In fact, rather than saving lives, this policy flies in the face of Australia’s international humanitarian obligations under the Refugee Convention and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially given that unaccompanied children will be among the first to be sent to offshore
detention.
My
detention
here is the result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The historian David Irving is still in
detention
in Austria for the crime of Holocaust denial.
In Guatemala, once again, President Oscar Berger was obviously proud to receive Bush, but failed to obtain a commitment from him to stop the inhuman, hateful Homeland Security raids by US law enforcement officers against undocumented immigrants, exemplified by the
detention
and attempt at deportation, on the eve of Bush’s visit, of nearly 300 Guatemalans working at a Massachussetts, military vest factory.
Stabilizing its neighbourhood is one reason why China embraces the six-party talks with North Korea, has become a big investor in Pakistan (while exploring ways to cooperate with President Barack Obama’s special representative, Richard Holbrooke), signed on to a joint Asia/Europe summit declaration calling for the release from
detention
of Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi, and intervened to help end Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war.
Security forces attacked peaceful protesters, jailed opposition leaders, sent thousands of their supporters to gruesome
detention
camps, and accused independent journalists of treason – a crime punishable by death.
But this convention guarantees freedom from
detention
until trial and conviction, except for “grave offenses.”
In the name of national security, citizens are stripped of their nationality, demonstrators are shot in the street, and thousands are held in arbitrary
detention.
Opponents of the Argentine junta were still keen to know the outcome of matches, even when they were locked away in clandestine
detention
centers.
Indonesia’s government would undoubtedly prefer to see Ba’asyir languish in jail, but without any legal measure to justify continued detention, it had little option but to release him.
On the anti-torture protocol, the US sought to derail the creation of a universal system of visits to places of detention, under an optional protocol to the Convention Against Torture.
The universal system of visits to places of
detention
is gaining ground.
Crackdowns have ranged from the severe – including detention, torture, and disappearances – to the subtle.
Donors have trained police and prosecutors and built courts and
detention
centers.
Even after the
detention
of thousands of anti-corruption protesters in more than 100 cities across Russia in March, the Trump administration issued only a tepid statement.
The monopoly on the use of violence exercised by democratic states must be preserved, which may involve expelling non-citizens who choose violence or advocate its use, and the
detention
of citizens who have practiced or threatened it.
Indefinite
detention
without trial is as unacceptable as defining people as "illegal combatants," to whom no rules of any kind apply.
Ramush Haradinaj, the prime minister of Kosovo, was accused but later released from
detention.
For the most vocal activists who won’t leave,
detention
awaits.
These include threats, intimidation, detention, sexual harassment, and violent attacks by governments, corporations, security forces, or other third parties with a stake in where aid funds end up.
In the case of Yaser Hamdi, the court renounced the Administration's claim that military authorities could indefinitely hold a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant" without ever providing him with an opportunity to contest the basis for his
detention
before a neutral decision maker.
It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite
detention
of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.
In response, the US Congress has just enacted the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which prohibits anyone implicated in Magnitsky’s
detention
or death – or others suspected of gross human-rights abuses – from entering the US or using its banking system.
Yet many European governments continue to invest in razor wire and
detention
centers, rather than in schools and teachers.
The catalyst for their anger was the arrest and
detention
of the ailing opposition leader Ayman Nour at the end of January.
One reason why the Pentagon needs to build a costly new facility has to do with the role of private contractors in driving
detention
policy.
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