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Be detention
noun
The act of detaining or the state of being detained.
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At various points during the journey the road passed housing projects and what appeared to be detention camps.
The camp where he was tortured is not identified in the report but was later revealed to be "Detention Site Green" at a Thai military base.
And the court said that because "the consequence of error may be detention of persons for the duration of hostilities that may last a generation or more, this is a risk too significant to ignore".
"They are locked up at home, and it may as well be detention".
Subsequently there were protests by robed monks calling for violence against Muslims, attempts to prevent even aid and medical shipments from reaching the camps (too primitive and lacking basic precautions to be official refugee camps) where most Rohingya had been corraled for what seemed to be detention without end.
It could be detention, no recess, a fail grade, writing a letter to your parents, or points taken off your participation grade, depending on your school district.
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I mean, this is detention.
I guess this is detention?
Then the only option is detention.
Many people were murdered and there was detention and torture.
Torture by law enforcement was common, as was detention without access to counsel.
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