internment

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Third, the military collapse of the caliphate 10 years ago didn’t result only in its territorial disappearance; it also led to the internment of several thousand jihadists fanatical to the point of madness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

By 1940, new policies ordered all German nationals - Jewish or not - into internment camps.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025

Today, under the law of war, civilians are supposed to have protections, including against citizenship- or identity-based detentions or internment, as well as against forced repatriation.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025

That hollow ache I carried during the early months of internment had shrunk, over the years, to a tiny sliver of suspicion about the very person I was.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston