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...With most Brazilians on holiday enjoying a long weekend, a judge on duty at the fourth regional federal tribunal, or TRF4, accepted a petition from supporters of Mr Lula da Silva to grant him habeas corpus...
...He was convicted of corruption for receiving favours from construction companies, including a seafront apartment, in return for helping them win contracts at Petrobras, the state-run oil company....
...Such habeas corpus procedures, all funded by the state, usually take years before finally reaching the US Supreme Court....
...It was not a glorious moment for habeas corpus when Britain, with its centuries of protecting individual liberties, kept Pinochet under house arrest for 18 months....
...On the extent of habeas corpus rights, on the scope of the “state secrets” privilege for the withholding of evidence whose disclosure might compromise national security, Mr Obama is taking his cues from...
...They are as likely to care about Satyagraha as about habeas corpus. In other words, their preoccupations overlap more with those of the media than with those of democratic governments....
...Critics have charged the administration with holding prisoners for years without bringing charges....
...in trying to make habeas review, and the obligation of the courts to provide it, mean something of value both to prisoners and to the nation.”...
...Yet in the end, Gorman sees the US Supreme Court uphold the right of habeas corpus for Guantánamo prisoners – part of the author’s “hope” in the honesty and justice of the American system....
...The battle came to a head after the Supreme Court in June ruled in Boumediene that detainees enjoyed the right of habeas corpus, which allowed them to challenge their detention in US courts....
...a writ of habeas corpus – an ancient judicial procedure, dating back to the time of England’s Magna Carta and enshrined in the US constitution, which allows prisoners to fight arbitrary imprisonment....
...On Wednesday, the justices will hear two cases that dispute the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which stripped the authority of federal courts to hear habeas corpus challenges...
...There are no internment camps for American Muslims, no suspensions of habeas corpus for US citizens, no laws prohibiting criticism of the war in Iraq....
...At a minimum, the administration should abandon efforts to flout the Geneva and torture conventions and deny habeas corpus to detainees....
...renditions programme; while it sends suspects in the war on terror to countries where they will be tortured; while habeas corpus remains suspended for prisoners in US custody; and while the White House...
...undermines longstanding pillars of Britain's legal system, such as the 700-year-old principle of habeas corpus the writ ordering a prisoner to be brought to court that has become a symbol of liberty....
...“I needed a writ of habeas corpus against Bush [requiring a prisoner to be brought to court to determine whether their detention is lawful] and for that I needed a US law firm....
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