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Topic: Egyptian blogger sent to prison
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Frustrated Mess
rabble-rouser
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posted 23 February 2007 05:09 PM
You really ought to invest in a newspaper once in a while. You might learn something beyond your own personal ignorances: quote: The oldest human right defined in the history of English-speaking civilization is the right to challenge governmental power of arrest and detention through the use of habeas corpus laws. Habeas corpus is roughly Latin for "hold the body," and is used in law to mean that a government must either charge a person with a crime and allow them due process, or let them go free.Last autumn the House and Senate passed, and the President signed into law, The United States Military Commissions Act of 2006, which explicitly strips both aliens and Americans of the right of habeas corpus, the right of recourse to the courts (as provided in the Fifth through Eighth Amendments to the Constitution), and denies appeal through mechanisms of the Geneva Conventions to those designated to lose these rights by the President.
You will recall that the Magna Carta offered the first protections against arrest without charge and imprisonment without trialNewspapers are usually about a buck.
From: doom without the gloom | Registered: Feb 2005
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