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Parent topics
- Civil liberties [r]: A concept very similar to that of human rights, the concept and/or its scope often being contentious. [e]
- Civil rights [r]: Rights considered inherent to members of a society, the arbitrary deprivation of which is subject to enforcement action [e]
- Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
Subtopics
- Ahmed Agiza [r]: An Egyptian citizen, rendered to Egypt by Swedish and U.S. personnel, where he was imprisoned for a 1999 in absentia conviction of belonging to an illegal organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad; the removal from Sweden did not involve extradition and may have violated the refoulement provision of the Convention against Torture. [e]
- Binyam Ahmed Mohammad [r]: an Ethiopian who was held in secret CIA custody, and later faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission. [e]
- Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi [r]: An Iraqi citizen, released in 2007, who was held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but was believed to have had some relationships with the British Security Service before being detained; the detention may be related to his breaking off the relationship; he is a plaintiff in Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. as well as British lawsuits [e]
- Clarence Earl Gideon [r]: The petitioner/defendant in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, decided in 1963, establishing the right to counsel protected by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. [e]
- El-Masri v. Tenet [r]: A case involving extrajudicial detention, in which the U.S. government stopped a lawsuit by a person captured due to an error in identification, by invoking the state secrets privilege; the dismissal was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and has been as a strong precedent for a wide interpretation of the privilege [e]
- Ernesto A. Miranda [r]: (1941–1976) Career criminal. One of his cases established "Miranda rights", due process rights regarding interviews following arrest. [e]
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. [r]: A civil lawsuit, filed against a Central Intelligence Agency contractor that supported the logistics of extraordinary rendition, which has been dismissed when the government invoked the state secrets privilege; appellate review was requested in late 2008 [e]
- Tariq Ramadan [r]: Swiss philosopher, Islamic scholar, and theorist on Islamist reform; Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University; denied entry to the U.S. by the George W. Bush Administration but admitted by the Obama Administration [e]
- American Civil Rights Union [r]: A conservative group presenting itself as an alternative to the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing for a strict constructionist view of the Constitution [e]