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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by april1stislame on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:36AM (#11737614)
I saw here on HN the other day a guy in the USA who's detained for 7 moths without charge. Lesson: Don't go to, or stay in, the USA.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by jbmorgado on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:38AM (#11737634)
Are you not allowed, as a visitor to the USA to go and report about any place inside the USA were any other citizen of the USA is allowed to go and to report about?
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by EliRivers on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:57PM (#11741460)
Snowdon sure seems to have problems following his reporting about the USA.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by april1stislame on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:46AM (#11737700)
I don't know. You tell me, as you seem to be so well informed and ready to jump in the defense of the USA. Are you not allowed, as a visitor to NK to go and report about any place inside NK were any other citizen of NK is allowed to go and to report about?
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by Thriptic on Friday May 20, 2016 @12:20PM (#11739103)
No, you are not, as evidenced by the presence of escorts throughout your stay and the search of all of your digital media upon entry and exit of the country.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by april1stislame on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:08PM (#11739554)
Is that evidence that NK journalists don't get the same treatment as foreign journalists? How so?
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by gambiting on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:44AM (#11737685)
Reading articles on HN has long ago cemented my decision to not go to USA.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by garrettgrimsley on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:23PM (#11740217)
That's a shame, there are many wonderful people here, just as in the DPRK and all over the world.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by april1stislame on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:49AM (#11737724)
Smart man.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by cheriot on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:41AM (#11737650)
Do you have a link? Our Constitution is interpreted by the courts as allowing 72 hours to charge or release.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by gst on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:46AM (#11737693)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspec...

"The suspect, a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has not been charged with any child porn crimes. Instead, he remains indefinitely imprisoned in Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center for refusing to unlock two drives encrypted with Apple's FileVault software in a case that once again highlights the extent to which the authorities are going to crack encrypted devices. The man is to remain jailed "until such time that he fully complies" with the decryption order."

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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by jeffmould on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:01AM (#11737816)
Not sure on this specific case, and IANAL, but from reading the article it sounds as if he has been found in contempt of court. When a judge rules an individual in contempt they can sentence them to an unspecified amount of time as to make them comply. In this case, although he hasn't been charged with the "headline grabbing" crime, he is charged with contempt which has no minimum/maximum sentence and is completely up to the judge's discretion.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by throwawayrol on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:01AM (#11737817)
Believe it or not, people can be sent to jail for crimes other than child porn. For example, contempt of court is a crime punishable by imprisonment...

He's not detained without charge. He's detained on the charge of contempt of court.

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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by Spooky23 on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:03PM (#11739496)
He's choosing to stay in a jail full of transient prisoners to avoid being a former police officer in prison for crimes against children.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by april1stislame on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:48AM (#11737715)
Your constitution went trough the window the moment you started having secret courts. That is stuff from fascists, secret courts.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by DblPlusUngood on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:09AM (#11737876)
Ah, the classic false equivalence argument.

You can expect at least one in any thread criticizing any country that isn't the USA!

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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by MrZongle2 on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:25PM (#11739694)
In this case, the Whataboutism has a mild kimchi flavor.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea by venomsnake on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:47AM (#11737709)
He was charged with contempt of court if that is the case I recall.
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