News & Commentary about Detention
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The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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Jan 31, 2018
Trump Embraces the Original Sin of Guantánamo
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Jan 5, 2018
ACLU Will Represent an American Citizen in U.S. Military Detention Abroad
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Dec 22, 2017
The Trump Administration Might Be Trying to Strip the Citizenship of an American Detainee Held in Secret
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Dec 1, 2017
The Trump Administration Just Admitted a Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But It Won’t Give Him One
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Nov 14, 2017
At Guantánamo, a Death Penalty Case Without a Death Penalty Lawyer
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Nov 3, 2017
The Trump Administration Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges
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Sep 22, 2017
What Are the Rights of an American Captured Fighting for ISIS?