{"id":148357,"date":"2018-01-23T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148357"},"modified":"2018-01-23T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:32:13","slug":"us-must-give-advance-notice-before-transferring-us-detainee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/23\/us-must-give-advance-notice-before-transferring-us-detainee\/","title":{"rendered":"US must give advance notice before transferring US detainee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142403\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Judge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142403\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Judge.jpg\" alt=\"A Nova Scotia judge is urging a man to let go of a nose biting incident during a drunken brawl at a wake, after blocking the man's efforts to appeal his aggravated assault conviction. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Judge.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Judge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Judge-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ACLU also asked the judge to continue to ban his transfer to another country (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A federal judge has directed the U.S. government to give 72 hours advance notice before transferring an American citizen accused of fighting with the Islamic State to another country.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified detainee surrendered on the Syrian battlefield in mid-September. The military is detaining him in Iraq as an enemy combatant.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the government was holding the detainee without providing him access to a lawyer. The court ordered the government to provide access to an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU also asked the judge to continue to ban his transfer to another country &#8212; perhaps Saudi Arabia, where he holds dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled Tuesday that the government has to give advance notice of any transfer so it can be contested in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A federal judge has directed the U.S. government to give 72 hours advance notice before transferring an American &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":142403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[44440,35881,9782,4592,2396,44441],"class_list":["post-148357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-american-citizen","tag-american-civil-liberties-union","tag-islamic-state","tag-judge","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-tanya-chutkan","mauthors-deb-riechmann","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}