Sentences with phrase «as detaining people»
That's not the same as detaining people solely to prevent them from committing crimes.
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ROME (AP)-- Italian authorities detained 38 people in a crackdown on a migrant trafficking ring that used a Rome cosmetics shop as a base for illegal financial transactions, officials said Monday.
This effectively allows Chinese authorities to arbitrarily detain people they see as political dissidents, Human Rights Watch senior China researcher Maya Wang said.
More than 20 people were detained across Spain as part of an operation launched by police, in conjunction with Europol, on Monday.
Immigration advocates took to the streets of New York City Saturday to express their support for the Big Apple's status as a sanctuary city — as five people were detained by federal agents on Staten Island.
«It is a travesty of justice and we as the New York Immigration Coalition are committed to doing everything that we can to stop the detaining and deportation of people like Ravi Ragbir and we will commit to do that,» Steve Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said.
This included presidential pardons, dated February 19, 2018, for 45 of the 92 persons detained in the country's prisons as a result of their involvement in the demonstrations.
In one instance, a green card resident was detained as well as a victim of domestic violence and two people who appeared for low - level misdemeanor charges.
He disclosed that over 40 groups are fighting for the actualization of an independent state of Biafra, with MASSOB as the parent body and urged the Federal Government to grant unconditional release to the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
The four people entered the country as far back as November 2015, before the suspected two Al - Qaeda foot soldiers detained in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba — who are also Yemeni nationalities — arrived in Ghana for their two - year stint.
Muslim attorney Tanhanie Aboushi said that between Saturday and Sunday, Border and Customs Enforcement had detained 12 people — and that as of 5:15 p.m. Sunday, half had gotten released.
The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) was launched in 2013 as a pilot program to provide representation for indigent detained people in proceedings at Varick Street Immigration Court.
«And I am cautiously optimistic that the federal government will recognize or the courts will recognize that these people should not be detained but will see as the day progresses.»
Justice Abang's order came as detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), yesterday, gave reasons he would not testify in the ongoing trial of erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh.
Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples» Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who is facing trial for N400 million fraud relating to the 2015 general election, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to allow him to call detained ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, rtd, to testify as his witness.
People are detained for two years in the centres, which often don't employ medical professionals, have no legal oversight and use unproven measures such as spiritual programmes, exercise, counselling and job - related training.
Some victims were detained after being lured to meet in the city by the police, who were posing online as gay or transgender people... Police arrested one man on September 23 through entrapment on a dating app, a common...
The people doing all the threatening in this episode are the ones who're supposed to be the good guys: the C.I.A.'s Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham), casually accosting Carrie Matheson (Claire Danes) as she picks her daughter up from school, and the Israeli government's Etai Luskin (Allan Corduner), politely detaining Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) on his way back to America from the West Bank.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the Patriot Act, people were detained for reading foreign - language pages on public internet sites, or criticizing then - president Bush in chat rooms, or reporting the receipt of a National Security letter to their library's attorney, as happened to four Connecticut librarians, who were arrested for discussing a National Security letter with their counsel.
If people do not want cats to be killed and cleaned up as if they were nothing but garbage, then they ought to fund Trap Neuter DETAIN shelters, where these cats can not only be taken out of their unnatural place in the food chain, but will be protected from humans with malicious intent, as well as accidents with things like cars.
False imprisonment, as defined in Penal Code 236 PC, makes it a crime to detain or confine another person without his or her consent.
Young men are in jail because of pot, people lose their jobs because they were caught smoking a joint, and police use marijuana as a pretext to detain and search.
Up to twice as many people suffering mental health problems are being detained in police cells rather than a more appropriate hospital environment.
«It is intolerable that even though it has been government policy since 1990 that a hospital is a preferred place of safety for such an assessment, research shows that twice as many people are being detained in police custody rather than in a more fitting hospital environment,» Bynoe says.
It would be perverse if the law was such that in order to be lawfully able to detain a person to prevent their imminent commission of an offence, the police must harbour a purpose of continuing the detention, after the risk has passed, until such time as the person could be brought before a court with a view to being bound over to keep the peace in the future.
«Previously, when a person arrested and detained in a police station asked for a lawyer, the police were obliged to contact that lawyer directly as soon as possible.
Professor EdCape said: «Previously, when a person arrested and detained in a police station asked for a lawyer, the police were obliged to contact that lawyer directly as soon as possible.
(1) Subject to subsection (1.1), if a person who has been arrested without warrant by a peace officer is taken into custody, or if a person who has been arrested without warrant and delivered to a peace officer under subsection 494 (3) or placed in the custody of a peace officer under subsection 163.5 (3) of the Customs Act is detained in custody under subsection 503 (1) for an offence described in paragraph 496 (a), (b) or (c), or any other offence that is punishable by imprisonment for five years or less, and has not been taken before a justice or released from custody under any other provision of this Part, the officer in charge or another peace officer shall, as soon as practicable,
R (Centre for Individual Rights in Europe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and anr [2017] EWHC 1878 (Admin), [2017] 4 WLR 129; [2017] ACD 108, QBD (Admin Ct), July 21 2017 The police were entitled under Operation Nexus to question suspects detained in police stations as to their immigration status, since they (i) had the same powers as any natural person to engage in non-coercive questioning; and (ii) in any case, assisting the Home Office on matters of immigration was within police functions.
The factual framework in Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene v. Ontario, 2010 ONCA 197 was this: a person detained at the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene (MHCP) as a person found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder had a disposition hearing before the Ontario Review Board (which... [more]
Immediately prior to taking up the first of his full time judicial appointments Sir Wyn acted as leading counsel for the Secretary of State for the Home Department in appeals brought before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission by persons who had been detained on suspicion of engaging in international terrorism.
The homeless are sometimes detained as a matter of policy for offenses that would ordinarily not be enforced or for marginal medical reasons, primarily as a matter of protective custody, when there is a fear that the individuals will suffer serious injury from exposure or from circumstances that make them particularly likely to be victims (e.g. following a surge of vigilante killings of homeless people).
The factual framework in Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene v. Ontario, 2010 ONCA 197 was this: a person detained at the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene (MHCP) as a person found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder had a disposition hearing before the Ontario Review Board (which annually reviews the status of every person so found).
Moreover, distinctions are possible between an institution such as a care home and an institution in which a person is detained.
The reason for Berkeley's administration to embrace a new method of funding is Donald Trump's reluctance to finance housing and support services in sanctuary cities like Berkeley, where the homeless population is growing as the city follows the policy of vast support of illegal immigrants, that includes prohibiting police or city employees from questioning people about their immigration status and refusing requests by federal immigration authorities to detain people.