As recently as Jan . 11 at a news conference with President Obama in Washington, Mr. Karzai had said the issue of detention had been solved finally and that the transfer would occur soon.
"We were delighted that we were able to prove a point," Harvey Tyson, the Star's editor-in-chief, said after the court ruling, "and the point is whether we are able to debate the issue of detention without trial". A black-bordered, front-page editorial in the Star was far more blunt.
The ensuing discussion, which was monitored by the agency, apparently touched on issues of detention, and the Jesuit Refugee Service was thrown out of the center the next day.
Mr. Coley said the detainees inevitably brought up issues of detention in the classes and Bible groups, especially because many lacked legal representation.
By emphasizing drone strikes, Mr. Obama need not bother with the tricky issues of detention and interrogation because terrorists tracked down on his watch are generally incinerated from the sky, not captured and questioned.
The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the detention, and before the case reached the Supreme Court, the Obama administration transferred the case back to the criminal justice system, avoiding a showdown on the constitutional issues of detention.
Mr. Coley said immigration officials were adamant that his volunteers not talk about issues of detention, and he admitted that some had broken that rule, although he said it was inadvertent.
"There are strong concerns about the devastating consequences, including severe mental health issues of detention of asylum seekers for indeterminate periods on Nauru and Manus Island," she said.
Without the input of key voices, Sunningdale was too weak to deliver reform on the sensitive issues of detention without due process and police abuse.
As the battle for public opinion over the issue of the detentions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, heats up, relatives of three of the prisoners there began a tour yesterday of New York and Washington to draw attention to the detainees' situation.
