Why the Hell are there still Americans going to Iran?
Ignorance?
Stupidity?
foxnews
Iranian authorities have detained a 55-year-old American woman on spying charges, a state-owned newspaper reported Thursday.
The daily IRAN said Hall Talayan had spying equipment hidden on her body when customs authorities detained her in the border town of Nordouz, 370 miles northwest of the capital Tehran. The report said Talayan arrived in Iran from neighboring Armenia without a visa. It did not say when she was detained.
Talayan is the fourth American Iran has arrested and accused of spying in less than two years.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Iran says American woman detained on spy charges
Sunday, October 10, 2010
China detains Nobel Peace Prize winner's wife
Nice move china.
Fu**ing Douchbags.
(Reuters) - Chinese authorities are detaining the wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Price laureate Liu Xiaobo at her Beijing apartment, a U.S. human rights group said on Sunday.
In a statement, Freedom Now said that Liu Xia has not been charged with a crime but has not been allowed to leave her home or use her mobile telephone after visiting her husband in jail to tell him about his award.
When he heard the news, Liu Xiaobo cried and said the Nobel "award is for the Tiananmen martyrs," according to the Washington-based group, which said it represents the Chinese dissident. The group works worldwide for the release prisoners of conscience and provides free legal counsel.
Freedom Now lawyer and spokeswoman Beth Schwanke said one of the group's human rights specialists, Yang Jianli, obtained news of Liu Xia's detention from a source in China they could not name over fears that the informant would also be detained.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Judge orders release of 3 U.S. contractors held in Iraq
First it was suspected of murder , then unregistered gun charges , and now a few are released and two are still detained on illegal substance charges ! sounds like they are determined to arrest someone over this murder no matter who it may be !
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three of five Americans contractors detained in Baghdad have been ordered released by an Iraqi judge, because of insufficient evidence, a court spokesman said Thursday.
The other two other contractors remain in custody, according to Judge Abdul Sattar al-Beeraqdar, a spokesman for Iraq's Higher Judicial Council.
One of the men has been released on bond, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad confirmed Thursday.
The embassy did not identify the man, who was released Wednesday. However, a spokesman for his employer, Corporate Training Unlimited, said it was Donald Feeney. Judy Feeney, Donald's wife, also confirmed his release
The contracting company said the release of the others has been delayed because of a procedural issue.
But al-Beeraqdar said, without naming names, that two contractors were being held on charges involving "illegal substances" found on the men when they were taken into custody.
Monday, May 4, 2009
China Quake Survivors Face Intimidation, Detention
China never ceases to amaze me , they are so hell bent on controlling their people that the parents who lost their children in an Earthquake , can't even grieve their loss without facing "Detention " .
Epoch times
BEIJING—Survivors of China's devastating earthquake last year face detention and harassment if they protest over collapsed schools, corruption claims and other grievances, Amnesty International said.
While Beijing is pouring billions of dollars into rebuilding towns in southwestern Sichuan province flattened by the May 12 quake, the government also has waged a less public campaign against citizens who blame more than natural destruction for the many schools that collapsed, killing thousands of children, the human rights advocacy group said.
"By unlawfully locking up parents of children who died, the government is creating more misery for people who have said in some cases they lost everything in the Sichuan earthquake," said Roseann Rife of Amnesty in a statement emailed with the report released on Monday.
On the weekend, several grieving parents of Juyuan, where a high school building toppled in the quake, told Reuters their plans to mourn their dead children were stopped by police.
"The police and town officials told us that we should not make such a fuss," said one of the parents, Yang Rengui, whose son died in the school. "Now many parents dare not speak."
Epoch times
BEIJING—Survivors of China's devastating earthquake last year face detention and harassment if they protest over collapsed schools, corruption claims and other grievances, Amnesty International said.
While Beijing is pouring billions of dollars into rebuilding towns in southwestern Sichuan province flattened by the May 12 quake, the government also has waged a less public campaign against citizens who blame more than natural destruction for the many schools that collapsed, killing thousands of children, the human rights advocacy group said.
"By unlawfully locking up parents of children who died, the government is creating more misery for people who have said in some cases they lost everything in the Sichuan earthquake," said Roseann Rife of Amnesty in a statement emailed with the report released on Monday.
On the weekend, several grieving parents of Juyuan, where a high school building toppled in the quake, told Reuters their plans to mourn their dead children were stopped by police.
"The police and town officials told us that we should not make such a fuss," said one of the parents, Yang Rengui, whose son died in the school. "Now many parents dare not speak."
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Two detained U.S. reporters moved to Pyongyang
It seems that maybe these two crossed into North Korea when they were detained , I'm just curious as to what they were filming , if it was something that would show North Korea in a bad way , they may have a problem getting released anytime soon !
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. journalists arrested last week by North Korean guards at the border with China have been moved to Pyongyang and are being interrogated there, a newspaper said Tuesday, quoting intelligence sources.
The arrest of the pair at the Tumen River came at a time of mounting tension on the Korean peninsula, with the North accusing the United States and South Korea of waging war exercises, while Pyongyang continued preparations to launch a long-range missile.
"We understand the two female reporters are staying at a guest house in the suburb of Pyongyang overseen by the Security Command (the North's intelligence agency) and are being interrogated," the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper quoted an intelligence source as saying."
The two, who South Korean media said were named Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were arrested before dawn on March 17 and driven in separate cars the next day to Pyongyang, JoongAng Ilbo quoted intelligence officials as saying.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service could not immediately comment on the report.
The pair, who media sources say were working for U.S.-based online news company Current TV, probably crossed the river and were on the North Korean side of the river at a point where the current narrowed in the secluded part of the river, the newspaper said.
A State Department official has said Washington has contacted North Korean authorities about the two and was seeking their immediate release.
A diplomatic source said the reporters were on the frozen Tumen river, which runs along the eastern portion of the border with China, when they were taken by North Korean security guards.
The arrest has raised alarm in Washington as it took three months to secure the release of an American in 1996 after he was detained by North Korean guards when he crossed the Yalu River that also separates the North and China.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Supreme Court case: Can terror suspect in US be held indefinitely?
A person who has conspired to commit harm upon ANYONE in the United States !( or any country ) should be in jail !!! end of discussion .but like the First O.J. trial, with a good lawyer , this jackass could walk free ! .
Hopefully the Government's argument to KEEP him locked up is a strong one , And we all can sleep better knowing that at least these guy's that have been held under these conditions , Will remain Locked up for a long time !!!
The CSM
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WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case of Ali Saleh al-Marri, a graduate student and suspected Al Qaeda sleeper agent who has been held without charge in a US military prison for more than five years.
The high court made the announcement on Friday after its private conference.
The case poses the most significant unresolved legal question yet in the Bush administration's controversial approach to the war on terror, and it sets the stage for another potential landmark national security decision next June.
At issue is whether the president has the power to order someone who is legally present in the United States to be held in indefinite military detention as an "enemy combatant."
The Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 5 to 4 in July that Congress had given the president the power to declare and hold enemy combatants, including individuals who are legally present in the US.
Lawyers for Mr. Marri are appealing that decision, saying civilians in the US may only be detained through the criminal-justice system. They are asking the nation's highest court to state clearly what the law is and what it requires.
"The lower court has replaced settled and historic protections with confusion," writes Marri's lawyer, Jonathan Hafetz of the American Civil Liberties Union, in his brief to the court. "The Fourth Circuit has cast a pall over the physical liberty of all persons in the United States."
The Marri case will not be argued and decided for many months, well after the departure of President Bush and the arrival of the Obama administration.
Mr. Hafetz says the US has long barred military action against civilians within US borders. Congress has authorized war fighting and the holding of enemy combatants overseas, but lawmakers have insisted that the criminal justice system, not the military, be used to safeguard Americans at home, Hafetz says.
Government lawyers say that shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed a law called the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). They say that law granted the president broad power to designate civilians in the US - or anywhere - enemy combatants in the war on terror. Once so designated, they may be held by the military for as long as the war on terror continues, they say.
Marri is no different than Mohammed Atta and the other 9/11 hijackers, government lawyers say. "There can be no serious doubt that Congress, in passing the AUMF, sought to authorize the use of 'all necessary and appropriate force' against aliens who have come to the United States to take an active part in al Qaeda terror operations," writes Solicitor General Gregory Garre in his brief urging the court not to take up the case.
He says the AUMF was written to "protect United States citizens both at home and abroad."
Marri's lawyers argue that the government's power to capture prisoners on a battlefield and hold those prisoners for the duration of hostilities does not apply to civilians in the US, who are far removed from any actual battlefield.
Government lawyers counter that the battlefield in the war on terror extends worldwide, including within US borders. Al Qaeda operatives may be held by the US military regardless of where they are captured, they say.
Marri is a citizen of both Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He has been held in US custody nearly seven years. For the last five years he's been detained without charge as an enemy combatant in a 9-foot by 6-foot cell at the US Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C.
US officials suspect Marri was sent to America by Osama bin Laden to carry out a second wave of terror attacks after the 9/11 attacks. They say he was plotting to wreak havoc on the US financial system by hacking into bank and other databases. In addition, he received Al Qaeda training in the use of poisons, according to the government.
Marri's lawyers deny the allegations.
Once in military custody, intelligence officials tried to pressure Marri into confessing. His lawyers say he was subject to harsh interrogation tactics. It is unclear what he told interrogators.
Solicitor General Garre urged the high court to reject Marri's appeal. He said the case should return to a federal judge in South Carolina where Marri would be given an opportunity to fight the allegations against him in a court hearing.
Hafetz says the central issue in the Marri case has been in some stage of litigation for nearly seven years. "The permissible bounds of the executive's domestic detention authority remain shockingly ill-defined," he says.
"The issue before the court is not whether the government's allegations are true," Hafetz says. "It is whether the government must prove those allegations in a criminal trial, with the full safeguards of the criminal process. Further proceedings on remand will not affect or clarify that legal question."
Hafetz says the appeals court decision in Marri's case gives broad authority for the government to hold US citizens in open-ended military detention without charge.
"The Fourth Circuit's decision has profound repercussions," he writes. "It grants the executive discretion to displace the constitutional protections of the criminal justice system, including the right to speedy presentment, confrontation, and trial by jury, merely by alleging a connection to possible terrorist activity."
Garre said the case does not involve whether American citizens can be detained as enemy combatants. He noted that Marri is a foreign national, not a citizen.
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