Sentences with phrase «police detention»
"Police detention" refers to the temporary holding of a person by the police, usually when they are suspected of criminal activity. It means that the person is not allowed to leave or go home until the police complete their investigation or until their legal situation is clarified. Full definition
The video for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's newly released song starts by re-creating the conditions of his captivity during the 81 days he was held in police detention in 2011, and later dissolves into a dystopian nightmare.
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We demand that the President who asked Ghanaians at his inauguration this year to be active citizens and not spectators, walk his talk by immediately ordering the release of Appiah Stadium from unlawful police detention when his only «crime» is trying to be an active citizen.
The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has been remanded in police detention till June 11, 2018.
CCLA is concerned that the Court's general formulation of the reasonable suspicion standard — that the evidence must support apossibility of criminal behaviour in light of the circumstances — sets a very low bar for authorizing police detentions and searches.
A woman is also in police detention.
In the other, the former chief of a police detention centre in Zhanaozen is being prosecuted in relation to the death of a suspect who was allegedly beaten to death.
«Our country's designers have some catching up to do,» wrote another, before worrying that the joke would lead to police detention.
His other ACLU cases addressed youth prisons, police detentions of pedestrians and motorists, free speech, religious liberty, and drug testing of public housing residents.