Witness to Abuse Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11, joint report by Human Rights Watch [HRW] and the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU], June 26, 2005 [report claiming that the Bush administration has violated the material witness law by detaining nearly 70 terrorism suspects since September 11 without enough criminal evidence to keep them]. Excerpt:

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, at least seventy men living in the United States—all Muslim but one—have been thrust into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charges, secret evidence, and baseless accusations of terrorist links. They have found themselves not at Guantánamo Bay or Abu Ghraib but in America's own federal prison system, victims of the misuse of the federal material witness law in the U.S. government's fight against terrorism.

Read the full text of the report here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.