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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
He forgot to bring his homework, so he got detention.
You just bought yourself another day of detention.
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As of today, your detention is lifted.
Vinnie slipped his home detention bracelet on Friday night.
Depending on the practice in that country, the death penalty was commuted to perpetual detention.
Take him to the detention room downstairs.
A refusal means 84 days detention and your wings stripped off in front of the Colonel.
One of you must stay to watch those on detention.
You mean I'm under detention?
They're still in detention.
You want to rest for six weeks in the house of detention?
Detention camps out at Karaolos.
The sooner I stop operating detention camps, the happier I'll be.
Identity fraud, matrimonial fraud, unlawful detention.
Watch out for detention.
This is not the day to get detention.
Detention for all four of you.
Second day back and I'm already in detention for something I didn't do.
You'll actually serve the detention next time, I promise.
You'll get your longed-for punishment: one hour's detention.
Detention in my room tonight, after dinner.
Have a pleasant detention.
When he returned he was taken to the principal, who gave him 2 hours' detention.
Next morning, he went to reprimand the boy who was in detention, but a different boy was there.
Maybe, but there will be the detention, the scandal and my daughter thrown out of her college.
Why? I was in disciplinary detention.
They got one day of detention because they said it was self-defense.
The place I'm going to is the ICC, isn't Gim Bong Gu at the detention center-- What if he were to escape?
At first I was in youth detention and now I'm here.
Provided I arrive safely, I'll either be chased away, or thrown into a detention centre.
All this effort just to get thrown into a detention centre?
He said it'll be a detention centre.
I've no idea what will happen tomorrow, but at least I'm not in a detention centre.
You were bailed out of detention barracks.
We are forced to send immigrants from the detention camps directly from the boats to the front lines.
In a detention cell.
And as detention sentences go, this one isn't too uncomfortable.
News and current affairs
Donors have trained police and prosecutors and built courts and detention centers.
My detention here is the result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But, while this is a compelling argument, those who know modern prisons recognize that many inmates are not susceptible to improvement - a fact that cannot be attributed only to conditions of detention.
It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite detention of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.
On the anti-torture protocol, the US sought to derail the creation of a universal system of visits to places of detention, under an optional protocol to the Convention Against Torture.
The universal system of visits to places of detention is gaining ground.
The extended detention of dozens of individuals in Guantanamo-without charge and without trial-is a basic abrogation of this right.
The catalyst for their anger was the arrest and detention of the ailing opposition leader Ayman Nour at the end of January.
Detention without trial is counterproductive in the fight against terrorism.
In particular, indefinite detention without trial needs to be addressed to avoid the recurrence of problems.
Therefore, the review of detention, trial, transfer, and interrogation policies is of utmost importance.
Britain is not the only country where ancient rights of habeas corpus, of the inviolability of the person, are to be restricted by new legislation that, for example, extends the permissible length of detention without charge.
The result was the detention of most of the senior judiciary, as well as bar association presidents across the country and all leading lawyers and human rights activists seeking to defend judicial independence.
A large number of pilgrims remain in detention, among them 15 teenage boys.
But, within two days of her detention, 500,000 viewers had watched the YouTube video of her excursion.
Initially, Blair attempted to force through detention without charge for up to 90 days.
Rights brought home one day; detention for a month without charge the next.
Some MPs signed a letter to Cameron from the Committee to Protect Journalists protesting Miranda's detention.
Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites - some close to Nasrallah - by opposition forces in Syria.
This helps to explain the recent crackdowns in Tibet and Xingjian, as well as the detention of human rights lawyers.
Chen was released from detention but remains under house arrest and was dragged back to the police station on September 2 for unknown reasons.
Security forces attacked peaceful protesters, jailed opposition leaders, sent thousands of their supporters to gruesome detention camps, and accused independent journalists of treason - a crime punishable by death.
The EU will take up the Obama administration's invitation to share its views with his Detention Policy Task Force on international law principles relevant to the fight against terrorism.