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  • We need to get their teacher, Nancy Pelosi, and put them in dentention.

    Wilson supporters to House Democrats: Bring it on 2009

  • That makes you a terrorist, hence: dentention without trial for you.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Still Missing the Point 2010

  • Egypt: Legal aid workers describe dentention, interrogation

    Egypt protests continue as Mubarak's government offers concessions Compiled by Ian Saleh 2011

  • Maybe having a few martyrs held in indefinite unlawful dentention would provide a rallying cry for their breatheren.

    Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate 2009

  • The remaining two dentention facilities, Camp Cropper and Camp Taji, are scheduled to be handed over to the Iraqis next year.

    The Obama Administration: September 16-30, 2009 2009

  • This evening May 15, Friday after the closure of visiting hours, the dentention center pro-actively came out to claim to the press that Chen has taken 400 cc of rice congee and "is now in good health".

    Taiwan News on most recent Chen Shui-bian detention Michael Turton 2009

  • DENVER -- Free speech advocates have been arguing for weeks against the Denver city government's plan to use so-called protest zones to control protest during the Democratic National Convention, but locals here this past weekend staged a protest at the warehouse dentention facility discovered by area bloggers and reporters, Westword newspaper writer Jared Jacang Maher and KCNC CBS affiliate reporter Rick Sallinger, last week.

    Erik Lassi: Groups Protest Police Warehouse "Processing Center" In Denver 2008

  • Justices Souter and Ginsburg concurred in the judgment, arguing that Hamdi's dentention was illegal, but specifically agreeing with the plurality (in order to create a majority holding for the case) that Hamdi had a Due Process right of access to the courts to challenge the legality of his detention. [from CNN]:

    Balkinization 2004

  • Justices Souter and Ginsburg concurred in the judgment, arguing that Hamdi's dentention was illegal, but specifically agreeing with the plurality (in order to create a majority holding for the case) that Hamdi had a Due Process right of access to the courts to challenge the legality of his detention. [from CNN]:

    Balkinization 2004

  • Justices Souter and Ginsburg concurred in the judgment, arguing that Hamdi's dentention was illegal, but specifically agreeing with the plurality (in order to create a majority holding for the case) that Hamdi had a Due Process right of access to the courts to challenge the legality of his detention. [from CNN]:

    Balkinization 2004

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