detained

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• She was being detained to be taken to the hospital, from where she was later released.

• “We reiterate our call for his immediate and unconditional release as well as the release of all those wrongfully detained for exercising their rights,” the statement added.

• Officers detained him and placed a spit hood over his head while he was naked in the middle of the street.

• In June 2020 in Texas, police briefly detained Taylor Bechtol, a 29-year-old former Air Force staff sergeant and munitions loader with the 90th Aircraft Maintenance Unit.

• Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi Suu Kyi’s godlike status drove her Myanmar election win.

• Kadyrov had promised to detain Muslim women wearing veils that cover their faces.

• Still, Israel is not the only country to detain refugee applicants.

• They find a few ounces of meth in the car and detain him for twenty four hours.

• Senator Marco Rubio asks "Why shouldn't we have a place to take people that we detain--like Guantanamo?"

• They will detain them and begin the process of removal—which is what federal law theoretically calls for in the first place.

• She waved a dissenting hand, and went on, paying no further heed to their renewed cries which sought to detain her.

• There is little to detain one within the city of Leeds itself, but there are many places of interest in its immediate vicinity.

• Guildford might well detain for a day or more anyone whose time will permit him to travel more leisurely than ours did.