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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]
Subtopics
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Abraham Lincoln Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Woodrow Wilson Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration [r]: Detention, without court authority, under the pre-WWII and WWII administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, including extrajudicial detention, U.S., Japanese internment as well as smaller numbers of suspected German and Italian sympathizers, and U.S. citizens such as Ezra Pound [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Japanese internment [r]: United States extrajudicial detention, as potential World War II security threats, of all citizens and aliens of Japanese ancestry residing in the Pacific coastal defense zone [e]
- Korematsu v. United States [r]: A U.S. Supreme Court case, in which the internment of Japanese-Americans was deemed constitutional due to military necessity [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Japanese internment [r]: United States extrajudicial detention, as potential World War II security threats, of all citizens and aliens of Japanese ancestry residing in the Pacific coastal defense zone [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yuri Nosenko [r]: Soviet KGB officer who defected to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, triggering an intense internal debate, not completely settled today, if he were genuine or a KGB plant; he and Anatoly Golitsyn accused one another of being a double agent; he was, without court authority, detained for several years by the CIA [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policies and practices relevant to detention in intelligence and military facilities, the latter when no prisoner of war status was granted [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., sexual offender [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kansas v. Crane [r]: A 2002 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, ruling that a person could not be adjudicated a sexual predator and put in indefinite medical confinement, purely on assessment of an emotional disorder, but such action required proof of a likelihood of uncontrollable impulse presenting a clear and present danger. [e]
- Extraordinary rendition [r]: A process in which a Requesting State may gain custody of a person held by another state, without going through a formal judicial process of international extradition, but not necessarily secretly or with no administrative hearing [e]
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S. [r]: Policies, techniques and practices of United States interrogation in a national intelligence-gathering context. (See Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration for recent detailed discussions) [e]
- International extradition [r]: The process by which one country asks the overt judicial system of another country to surrender, to the first country, a person resident in the second, to face criminal proceedings in the first country [e]
- Geneva Conventions [r]: For international law, the principal group of treaties addressing humanitarian aspects of war [e]
- Prisoner of war [r]: An individual who has been captured by an enemy in an area of war, and meets various conditions, defined principally by the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, which qualify the person as a lawful combatant [e]
- Universal jurisdiction [r]: A concept in international law that allows a nation to prosecute an individual charged with offenses against humanity, with no requirement that the defendant or victim be a national of the Requesting State or indeed, that there are any links to the Requesting State and the defendant [e]
- War on terror [r]: A major policy of the George W. Bush Administration, defining global terrorism, as opposed to nation-states as in the Cold War, as the focal point of national security policy [e]