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Video: ACLU Lawyers on Landmark Al-Marri Case

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December 5, 2008

As we mentioned earlier today, the Supreme Court will hear the case Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal resident of the United States, who has been detained in solitary confinement at a Navy brig in South Carolina since June 2003 without charge or trial.In this short video, ACLU Legal Director Steve Shapiro and ACLU National Security Project Staff Attorney Jonathan Hafetz discuss this landmark indefinite detention case.

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