Sentence examples for petitions for release from inspiring English sources

Just as it argues in the cases brought by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, the Bush administration maintains in these cases that federal courts lack jurisdiction to grant petitions for release filed by civilians in military custody in Iraq.

It is not yet clear whether he will again petition for release.

His petition for release, he said, should have been reviewed under standards like those for criminal defendants in the United States.

A few weeks later, I learned that the parole board had rejected Omar's petition for release.

Last year, a federal district court denied Mr. Bihani's petition for release; Tuesday's decision upheld the lower court.

Harold O. Levy, the interim schools chancellor, said yesterday that the Board of Education's general counsel would go to court today to support the petition for release of the medical records.

Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of Federal District Court here granted Mr. Hatim's petition for release in 2009, but said he should remain in detention while the case went through appeal.

Ending juvenile life without parole merely leaves open the possibility that a child who commits a crime can petition for release later in life, if he can demonstrate that he is remorseful, has rehabilitated, and will not reoffend.

In his petition for release, Dassey argued that his attorney had a conflict of interest in the case, that his confession had been coerced by law enforcement and that he was given false promises by investigators.

But 54 more prisoners deemed innocent by the panel remain in jail as petitions for their release have sat on Mr. Fujimori's desk for more than six months.

He petitions for the release of political detainees, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which boycotted Tuesday's municipal elections after hundreds were arrested in a pre-election crackdown.