Indefinite Detention

  

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

              - Henry David Thoreau  

   
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    NDAA Threatens Free Speech

    RT America   (7:17)

    This statute can legally detain anyone suspected of having terrorist ties indefinitely and without charge or trial, including journalists covering terrorism.

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    NDAA: Death to Due Process

    Activist Daniel Ellsberg    (7:56)

    This famous whistleblower describes the National Defense Authorization Act's military detention provision as a "systematic assault on the Constitution."

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    Obama Signs NDAA Bill

    Attorney Michael Ratner - CCR   (14:32)

    The U.S. has now legalized indefinite detention by our military of anyone in the world - including American citizens - without proper safeguards and oversight.

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    Gitmo: Starving for Justice

    Artist: Ludovico Einaudi   (7:23)

    The Guantanamo Bay detainees are tortured, particularly those who attempt to assert their right to protest the injustice of their detention by participating in a hunger strike.

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    Annual Gitmo Fast for Justice

    Lawyer Ramzi Kassem   (4:23)

    Human rights groups around the world continue to take part in actions and protests around the world, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents Gitmo detainees.

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    Doctors of the Dark Side

    Torture of Hunger Strikers   (2:23)

    The scandal is how American physicians and psychologists facilitate the torture of detainees in U.S.-controlled military prisons to break the wills of hunger-striking prisoners.

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