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An American citizen freed from an Iraqi prison claims he was subsequently held in Turkish custody on behalf of U.S. authorities without legal justification.
An American citizen claims he was held in Turkish custody on behalf of U.S. authorities after being released from an Iraqi prison, and that this detention happened without legal justification or due process. He's alleging the U.S. government used a foreign country's detention system to hold him outside American legal protections.
The allegation describes a proxy detention—using another country's jail system to circumvent U.S. constitutional protections that would apply if he were detained on American soil. If true, it's a workaround to habeas corpus and due process rights. The claim hinges on whether the U.S. actually requested or coordinated the Turkish detention, which would be difficult to prove without internal documents.
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