Sentences with phrase «detain people for»

Such accounts, however, neglect the criminal law's ability to detain people for preventive reasons in the pretrial stage of the criminal process.

This power allows the police to detain people for investigation «if there are reasonable grounds to suspect in all the circumstances that the individual is connected to a particular crime and that such detention is necessary.»

Scott Israel, the Broward County, Fla., sheriff, called on lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee to expand police powers by allowing officers to detain people for a mental health evaluation on the basis of worrisome social media posts or «graphic threats.»

For example, in order to detain a person for investigation of a crime, the police must have at least reasonable suspicion that an offense has occurred.

If the person is intoxicated, the police may detain that person for longer than four hours until they believe the person is no longer intoxicated.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, a government crackdown on corruption late in 2017 that saw numerous Saudi business people, including notable royals, detained and imprisoned (infamously, in the Riyadh Ritz Carlton hotel) and assets handed over to the authorities in return for freedom could also spook investors.

Brazil detained 12 people for suspected links to Islamic State last month but it has insisted that the risk of an attack at the Games is minimal.

People detained for crossing the border illegally are housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas.

They detain the more prominent people (activists) on the spot... but for others - now they (the government) have the time, they'll investigate and then arrest them at a later stage.

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.

Turkey itself has even detained nearly 600 people for social - media posts criticizing the invasion, according to Reuters.

The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»

«Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

Turkey has detained nearly 16,000 people for suspected links to the failed uprising, and about half of them were formally arrested to face trial.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than 200 people have been summoned for questioning, and most are still detained, in a wide - ranging crackdown that Saudi Arabia says is aimed at rooting out corruption and reclaiming embezzled funds, the government said Thursday.

A brief report issued by Tianshan Net, an official news Web site for Xinjiang, said that in Hanairike Township in Hotan, a crowd wielding weapons «assembled in a disturbance, and the public security authorities took emergency action and detained people taking part, rapidly quelling them.»

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said it «strongly condemns» the measures, which commission chair Thomas J. Reese said would «make it easier for Russian authorities to repress religious communities, stifle peaceful dissent, and detain and imprison people.»

China detains people w / o trials, executes people for non-violent crimes and w / unfair trials, and suppresses «Freedom of Expression» including heavy censorship on the Internet.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Now we know that people are just being detained for hours rather than days.

It is difficult for me to parse the sentence in Geneva -4-A3, but SCOTUS in the Hamdan decision seems to believe that the phrase «those placed in hors de combat by -LSB-...] detention» is a modifier of «persons taking no active part» and not a modifier of «members of armed forces», because SCOTUS held that this Article applies to Osama bin Laden's driver, who was detained in Camp X-ray.

It is eroding data protection, having people detained for sleeping rough, and meaning that victims of crimes are being arrested.

If it gets this definition wrong, vulnerable people, like torture survivors, could be wrongly detained for immigration purposes, causing significant pain and distress.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and freshman Assemblywoman Monica Wallace also voted against the bill, which among other things, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from detaining individuals based on immigration status and would provide for legal representation for people without documentation who otherwise couldn't afford it.

«Disobeying court order and later arresting and detaining the same person the court ordered to be allowed to travel abroad for medicare is the peak of dictatorship.

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.

The letter, which Labour has released publicly, states that while Yarl's Wood permits social and legal visits for detainees, Abbott was «not seeking to visit a specific individual but rather to see for myself the general conditions in which people are detained and to listen to any of those wishing to share their experiences with me alongside those working in the institution».

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.

Trump's Muslim ban came into force in the most brutal way imaginable, penning people in airports, detaining refugees and interpreters and families and old women, and expanding to include those who had been legally resident in the US for years on green cards.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Friday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to charge the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh to court if the commission was sure of evidences of fraud against him, saying «the EFCC appears to be operating a system in which an accused person is first arrested, detained endlessly while the anti-corruption agency goes about looking for evidence.»

For its part, the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) said it had identified 50 people detained and that «the number of arrests continues to rise» and had passed 70 across the whole province.

Ministers have argued that it provides more help for people with mental health problems, while at the same time ensuring doctors can admit patients for treatment or detain them where necessary, for example for public safety.

A cross party group of peers has challenged the government's mental health bill, with the Lords voting for a series of amendments that weaken the proposed act's power to detain people with severe personality disorders without consent.

Also at noon, NYC Council Members Daniel Dromm and Andy King, the Jails Action Coalition and other groups hold rally to push for changes in treatment of people detained and incarcerated on Riker's Island, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A United States commissioner specially designated by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has like jurisdiction and authority in the case of any person temporarily detained in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, pursuant to section 21 - 903.

People with mental health problems ought to be able to feel confident that, should they be detained under section, powers to detain and treat them and make decisions on their behalf will be used with great care and for the right reasons.

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.

«Over 30 people [who] received various degrees of injury within the Trade Fair site were rushed to the 37 Military Hospital, La General Hospital for treatment... some of them have been detained at the hospital,» he said.

Five people have so far been arrested in bitter battle, with Nick Clegg criticising the police for detaining peaceful protesters

McKenna said he favors a policy under which local police would not ask people for documentation but objects to the term «sanctuary city» because it incorrectly implies that immigration law violators can not be detained.

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.

; Patrick Akpolobolokemi, the former NIMASA Director - General was rough - handled and bundled into a van right in front of the court premises where a judge had just granted him bail; several persons are known to have been detained for periods far in excess of the constitutionally mandated 48 hours initially under spurious detention orders signed by magistrates courts in the Federal Capital Territtory!

When the previous government announced it was appealing against the European Court's original ruling in 2005, the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Firkin, said: «It has been the view of successive governments, including this government, that persons who have committed crimes serious enough to warrant a custodial sentence should forfeit the right to have a say in how the country is governed while they are detained.»

Join us to explore what Rikers means for the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day.

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.

«Ibekaku, who was once a director in the EFCC, used her connections and contacts and illegally corrupted certain individuals and have them invite me to Benin, but thanks be to God that we have honest people within the EFCC, and so, that petition was transferred, but the intent was to detain me in Benin in an effort to blackmail me, tarnish my name, in retaliation for my call for the removal of the minister.

«We» are standing up for human rights in line with Shami Chakrabarti because we oppose the draconian imposition of state sponsored snooping and detaining people willy - nilly subsequent to 911.

Police have called for better mental health education in schools after a rise in young people being detained under the Mental Health Act.