By bypassing the courts, administrative [anti-terrorist] measures [in France] deny people the chance to prove their innocence and permit the government to penalise individuals without having to prove their guilt.
French law allows the government to impose assigned residence orders on foreign nationals who, like Kamel, cannot return to their country of nationality. And so began an ordeal that has left him languishing in a legal limbo that has rendered a normal life impossible.
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