"Arbitrary detention" means when someone is being held in custody or detained without a fair reason or proper legal justification.
Sentences with «arbitrary detention»
This was due to the absence of safeguards to guard against arbitrary detention. (newlawjournal.co.uk)
To make matters worse, not even a court order could sway the agency to desist from its abuse of the constitution by way of arbitrary detention of the minister. (newsdiaryonline.com)
Street checks are police instigated stops in high - crime neighbourhoods, and the reason the tactic has received so much recent media attention is because it usually results in arbitrary detention of citizens. (calgarydefence.com)