CNS Fellow and ACLU Senior Staff Attorney, Jonathan Hafetz, representing Adam Hassoun writes that “a federal judge has rejected the government’s sweeping claim that it can, on its own say-so, indefinitely imprison [Hassoun] without charge and without a fair trial.” After completing his 15-year criminal sentence on terrorism-related charges, the government is seeking to keep him locked up indefinitely arguing that he was a danger to national security and that the power to detain Hassoun without a judicial hearing is granted by a provision of the USA Patriot Act. Jonathan Hafetz argues the executive branch’s attempts to keep Hassoun detained infringe upon his constitutional rights and “right to liberty.”
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