internment

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Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority of around 10 million people in the western region of Xinjiang, including the mass use of forced labor in internment camps.

From Reuters

Army internment camp in Louisiana with other enemy aliens from the Axis powers of Japan, Germany and Italy during most of the war.

From Los Angeles Times

Some advocates were outraged by — and threatened to boycott — hearings set up by a 1980 federal commission on Japanese internment, called it a delaying tactic.

From Seattle Times

The shootings happened after the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland.

From BBC

The former Sinn Féin leader welcomed the Supreme Court's decision, saying internment without trial "set aside the normal principles of law and was based on a blunt and brutal piece of coercive legislation".

From BBC