Sentence examples for custody without trial from inspiring English sources
Some monks, at least, say that all are now free again, after, in a few cases, several months in custody without trial.
And President Bush — not President Obama — authorized the detention of an American arrested in the United States in military custody without trial for several years.
Dissent is not tolerated in a country known for arbitrary arrests, long periods of custody without trial, severe beatings, torture, forced disappearances and bogus trials.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in 70 locations around the world last Saturday to protest the 1,000th day Manning has been in military custody without trial.
Still, the signing on New Year's Eve as few people were paying attention angered civil liberties advocates, who argue that the law for the first time spells out certain measures that have not actually been tested all the way to the Supreme Court, including the possibility of detaining citizens in military custody without trial for as long as there is a war on terror.
Civil liberties advocates agree that suspects can be brought to the United States and tried in civilian courts, but many remain disappointed that Obama did not veto last year's NDAA, which codified the right of the executive to hold any terrorism suspect in military custody without trial.
But Bush declared Padilla and Marri to be "enemy combatants," which, he argued, meant that they could be transferred to military custody, for interrogation and detention without trial.
The justice department is expected to have completed a review of the cases of each of the inmates by early next month, making a decision on who should be released, who should stand trial and who should be held in custody indefinitely without trial.
"The Commonwealth had no right to continue to pursue a now frivolous appeal whose sole effect was to keep these defendants in custody without a trial," Judge Lerner wrote.
To cap it all, India's draconian anti-terrorist laws can be used to hold the companies' officials in custody for years without trial.
