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Parent topics
- Extrajudicial detention [r]: The policy and practice of holding prisoners captive without judicial authority to do so, or without a recognized authority under international law, such capture of prisoners of war [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S. [r]: Situations where the Executive Branch of the United States government has detained individuals without the authority of the judicial branch of government; there have been many cases going back to through the early history of the nation, sometimes during overt war, and, perhaps better known at present, directed against non-national threats. [e]
Subtopics
- Binyam Ahmed Mohammad [r]: an Ethiopian who was held in secret CIA custody, and later faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission. [e]
- Detainee Treatment Act [r]: A 2005 Congressional act specifying explicit standards for prisoners in the custody of the U.S. military [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]
- Carol Rosenberg [r]: American journalist with McClatchy News Service, who has specialized in issues of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
- Guantanamo Bay detention camp [r]: A military-operated extrajudicial detention facility created by the George W. Bush Administration for selected captives apprehended during the war on terror; ordered closed by the Obama administration but apparently will remain in operation indefinitely [e]
- Guantanamo captives' documents [r]: Descriptions of documents published about the individual Guantanamo captives. [e]
- Administrative Review Board [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Haji Bismullah [r]: An Afghan citizen, who, while working for a pro-US Afghan provincial government, was denounced, held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp for six years, and released in January 2009 as "no longer an enemy combatant" [e]
- High Value Detainee [r]: Terrorist suspects in U.S. custody, considered to have critical information, for which the Central Intelligence Agency was authorized to use interrogation techniques beyond those normally permitted [e]
- Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul [r]: A "ghost prisoner", acknowledged held by the U.S. in 2004, whose current status and whereabouts are unknown; he was not among the CIA High Value Detainees transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
- Johnson v. Eisentrager [r]: A 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision that nonresident enemy aliens, captured in the context of a declared war outside the jurisdiction of any U.S. civil court, were purely under the jurisdiction of military law and had no access to the U.S. judicial system [e]
- Jose Padilla [r]: An American citizen, convicted in 2007 of conspiring to assist in terrorism in foreign countries, who was originally arrested in 2002 by U.S. law enforcement, transferred by Presidential order to military custody and interrogation, and, as a result of Padilla v. Rumsfeld, sent back to civilian jurisdiction [e]
- Khaled el-Masri [r]: A naturalized German citizen, who had been in U.S. extrajudicial detention, released, and sued the U.S. but had his case, el-Masri v. Tenet, rejected based on the state secrets privilege [e]
- Military Commissions Act of 2006 [r]: U.S. law authorizing the President or Secretary of Defense to create tribunals for determining the prisoner of war status of persons captured as non-national combatants, and to try them, outside the regular judicial system, for war crimes [e]
- Convening authority [r]: The individual responsible for setting in motion Courts martial in the US military justice system. [e]
- John D. Altenburg [r]: After retiring from the United States Army, was appointed the first convening authority for the Guantanamo military commissions. [e]
- Susan Crawford [r]: Retired (2010) convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that tries non-national terrorism suspects; a retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Services [e]
- Bruce MacDonald [r]: A retired officer in the United States Navy, appointed the third Convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions. [e]
- Convening authority [r]: The individual responsible for setting in motion Courts martial in the US military justice system. [e]
- Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants [r]: In 2004 the DoD initiated annual reviews of whether they should continue to hold the Guantanamo captives or repatriate them. [e]
- Ex parte Quirin [r]: A 1942 Supreme Court of the United States ruling that affirmed the right to try captured enemy personnel, who operated in civilian clothing, by a Presidentially appointed secret military tribunal [e]
- Alberto Gonzales [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alien Torts Claims Act [r]: Originally introduced in 1789, a U.S. law that has become active in using the U.S. court to seek redress for actions committed outside the U.S., but in violation of U.S. or international law and where the defendants have a relationship to the U.S. [e]
- American Civil Liberties Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Freedom of Information Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Tenet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Goldsmith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jay Bybee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jed Rakoff [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Office of Legal Counsel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- State secrets privilege [r]: Add brief definition or description