detention
Example Sentences
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Fawaz has been held in detention centres twice and faced deportation threats.
From BBC
The U.S. military moved some 5,700 Islamic State-affiliated prisoners from detention at a network of camps in Syria to Iraq after the government takeover of the northeast in January.
A hitch at the police station meant Andrew's detention was slightly longer than it might have been.
From BBC
Plainclothes security officers guard the detention center, a Ministry of Social Affairs office building in Yaoundé, the capital of the Central African country.
His death, which has so far prompted no criminal investigation or charges, has renewed scrutiny not only on that camp, but on conditions at the nearly two dozen ICE detention sites in Texas.
From Salon
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