"detain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Policemen commit kidnappings, detain civilians in order to extort bribes, and conspire with prosecutors to commit blackmail and other crimes.
- They would also give them the right to detain civilians and to use deadly force in defense of themselves or their clients.
- The PYD captured 20 rebel fighters, while the rebels detained 180 Kurds, civilians and fighters.
- It is not customary for us to detain civilians here at Quantico.
- In 1992 at the Dretelj camp Croat forces detained mostly Serb civilians, who were held in inhumane conditions, while female detainees were raped.
- The criteria for detaining suspicious or uncooperative civilians was also not very well defined.
- Soldiers and riot police can be seen forcefully detaining civilians.
- The place was considered so treacherous that it was used by the Kings of Rewa State, who ruled the area till 1947, as an open air prison for detaining errant civilians and officers.
- During 1992 the HOS detained mostly Serb civilians, who were held in inhumane conditions, while female detainees were raped.
- By including displaced and detained civilians, this figure rises to 6.6 million.
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