Thursday, March 1, 2007
Volume:
23
Issue:
3
97
Abstract:
Criminal justice professionals and the international human rights community are focusing on the Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri case, now pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which challenges the U.S. government’s ability to declare persons unlawful enemy combatants and detain them indefinitely outside the normal protections of the criminal justice system. On December 12, 2001, the U.S. government arrested al-Marri in Illinois, where he was living as a student; he has been in custody within the U.S. ever since. In early 2002, the government brought criminal charges against al-Marri. After the government brought three indictments against him on a variety of charges, in June 2003 it designated al-Marri an enemy combatant and dismissed the criminal indictment against him with prejudice. Since then, al-Marri has been detained without charge ... [more]