Sentences with phrase «detained as»

Claire Mallinson, director of Amnesty International Australia, said these practices flew in the face of international law, which states children should be released from pre-trial detention as soon as possible and only detained as a last resort.

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).

For example, the President would be entirely within his rights to order General A to report to the Barracks at Fort Levenworth (a military prison) or to a maintenance detail in a South Korean Army base, as active duty personnel individual assigned to that duty (i.e. not detained as a prisoner) and to await further orders.

An impacted wisdom tooth might cause agony, but you won't spend weeks, months or years wrongfully detained as a result of not being able to access a state - funded dental surgery.

Based on these concerns, the lawsuit asks for records to determine how much taxpayer money is being spent on this program, where enforcement activities are occurring and who is being investigated and detained as a result.

As described here, in the Higazy case, the 2nd Circuit revised a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian student detained as a material witness after the Sept. 11 attacks.

On arrival at the Scottish port of Leith, he was detained as an enemy alien.

He was detained as an enemy alien and interned in Hutchinson camp in Douglas on the Isle of Man — a place that turned out to be less gruesome than Schwitters might have expected.

From 1976, prisoners detained as part of the Troubles were detained in the H - blocks with criminal, rather than political, prisoner status.

Hundreds more were detained as prisoners of war, and over 730 U.S. merchant ships were sunk or damaged.

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.

The order issued late last week set off a furor at airports nationwide as some travelers were detained as they sought to gain entry to the country.

As a result, these children might end up being housed with adults, denied access to education or even detained as an adult in an Immigration Removal Centre and forcibly removed from the country.»

For example, a self - proclaimed terrorist from the Animal Liberation Front could not be detained as an enemy combatant, but that is not among the terrorist organizations that Congress has declared war on in the AUMF.

Cavusoglu disclosed this hours after the agency reported that five suspects linked to Islamic State had been detained as part of the ongoing investigation.

Meanwhile, government critics and rights groups say authorities have merely changed tactics, instituting a sort of catch - and - release policy whereby dissidents are briefly detained as a form of harassment.

While the band was definitely in danger of being detained as political bargaining chips, you know damn well that those verbal threats of execution by the «high ranking members» were nothing more than just that.

On Sunday morning David Miranda, the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, was detained as he was passing through Heathrow airport on his way back to Rio de Janeiro, where the couple live.

Women walk by a team of volunteer lawyers in their makeshift office working to assist travelers detained as part of Donald Trump's travel ban in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.

Accordingly, you are directed to receive Mr. Padilla from the Department of Justice and to detain him as an enemy combatant.

«Now the APC - led federal government suddenly realized the corruption allegation levelled against the SGF; and instead of arresting and detaining him as the government has been doing to PDP members and other Nigerians, he was rather suspended and a committee set - up to investigate him.

At the bail hearing the Crown wanted the Judge to detain me as I was from the UK.

Not exact matches

A Chinese doctor was detained for three months for describing a popular medicinal liquor as poison.

From left, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D - Va., speaks with a Customs and Border Patrol liaison on the phone as he along with Rep. Don Beyer, D - Va., and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D - Md., try to determine if any international travelers are detained without legal access at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

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.

In April, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration planned to roll back certain protections for detained immigrants as part of its effort to combat unauthorized immigration.

As numerous foreign citizens were detained at airports around the globe, triggering spontaneous protests, part of Trump's executive order was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in New York.

Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh were the last two members of the British Isis cell known as «The Beatles» to remain at large until they were detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last month.

Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

Cho Hyun - ah (C), also known as Heather Cho, leaves for a detention facility after a Korean court ordered her to be detained

This effectively allows Chinese authorities to arbitrarily detain people they see as political dissidents, Human Rights Watch senior China researcher Maya Wang said.

Prince Mohammed, informally known as MBS, tightened his grip on power with a purge detaining hundreds of elite Saudis in what he claimed was an anti-corruption drive.

China is detaining or interrogating family members of Muslim Uighurs who have left for the U.S., as those who managed to flee a web of surveillance and detention in northwestern China discover they can't truly escape Beijing's reach.

Predictive policing introduces a scientific element to law enforcement decisions, such as whether to investigate or detain, how long to sentence, and whether to parole.

Hundreds of activists gathered to call for the release of a handful of refugees and immigrants who are being detained at the airport, as customs officials seek more clarification from the White House as to the extend of the ban.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23 - year - old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and given a work permit during the Obama administration, according to a lawsuit challenging the detention in Seattle federal court.

Oil prices spiked to a two - year high after Saudi Arabia launched a country - wide probe into corruption, detaining numerous high - profile individuals, including prominent businessmen and members of the ruling al - Saud family, as well as current and former ministers.

Hundreds of Christians are arrested, detained for months and then released without formal charges «as an intimidation tactic,» she said.

«He knows the language, he knows the nature of the government, so we don't see that as a legitimate reason that he would be detained,» she said.

(CNN)- Anat Hoffman had no idea who comedian Sarah Silverman was until Silverman's sister and niece were detained with her Sunday in Jerusalem for wearing prayer shawls as they prayed at the Western Wall.

As a member of the Freedom Writers program (http://www.amnestyusa.org), I write letters to officials in countries that detain prisoners of conscience (as determined by Amnesty InternationalAs a member of the Freedom Writers program (http://www.amnestyusa.org), I write letters to officials in countries that detain prisoners of conscience (as determined by Amnesty Internationalas determined by Amnesty International).

First detained in October 2016 as part of a visa investigation, he was later accused of involvement with two organisations Turkey considers to be terrorist in nature and behind a botched coup earlier that year.

If any government on Earth made a practice of detaining anyone who didn't follow the party line indefinitely, and torturing them constantly once detained, they would be branded as committing crimes against humanity and international criminals.

As «Christians around the world rejoice» at Abedini's release, Middle East Concern (MEC) reported that «Iranian Christians request our continuing prayer, asking that... other Christians detained in Iranian prisons will be encouraged and released soon.»

Many churches in the Yungan area are removing crosses from their buildings, and local police have cracked down on local gatherings: detaining a local pastor, as well as believers as young as 3 years old for singing in a park.

(There is something to be said for taking it as a subjective genitive, but the point need not detain us here.

Its content need not detain us except to observe that the codification of Hebrew law begins, not in a statement of general ethical principles such as the prohibitions of murder, adultery, theft, lying, and covetousness found in the Decalogue of Exod.

The Catechism of Christian Doctrine interpreted this as Limbo «where the souls of the just who died before Christ were detained.»

For Desbois, who was born in France after World War II but recalled the stories his grandfather told him as a French soldier detained in a prison camp in the Ukraine, the urgency is clear.