"detention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This was said to justify his detention without trial in civilian courts.
- Apparently, there was no legitimate reason justifying these people's detention.
- Officials have justified his detention by saying he is considered to be an enemy combatant.
- He was not allowed to defend himself at the Potemkin hearing held to justify his detention.
- The lie was broadcast around the world, and used to justify his indefinite detention without trial.
- Kalashnikova said that the authorities justified her detention as being because she had been "aggressive".
- "Sufficient evidence exists to justify their detention - the testimony of the relatives, the neighbors."
- These laws justify preventive detention and encourage to extract confessions by any method.
- Moreover, if subsequently called upon to justify a person's detention or other actions to control him, the foreign material can be relied upon.
- We've heard the term "enemy combatants" used to justify indefinite detention without due process, and assassination.
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