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Detained

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Past of detain

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Crider suspected that the US, which sent interrogators to interview Mobley shortly after he was detained, is complicit in his apparent disappearance.

Yet all day long they had allowed the falsehood to be tweeted and written about that Miranda was detained without being offered a lawyer.Pretty shocking.

Most people detained under the 2000 Act are held for less than one hour.

Church was the only person who had been detained at the facility who agreed to talk with the Guardian: their lawyers say others fear police retaliation.

Speaking to the Guardian before he was detained, he described what has happened to him since he vanished.

A total of 3,462 people were in immigration detention at the end of last year mostly waiting for removal – 397 of them had been detained for longer than six months, and 18 for longer than two years.

A taxi driver contracted to international online cab firm Uber and detained on charges of raping a female passenger last weekend in the Indian capital Delhi is a serial sexual offender with dozens of criminal complaints registered against him, local media have claimed.

The pair were detained, though not arrested, by police on 11 September after a complaint that they were having sex in their car, which was parked outside CBS studios in the Studio City area of Los Angeles.

Asylum seekers indefinitely detained in Australian detention centres live with the knowledge that they may be deported to countries where they will be potentially tortured and killed.

Related: Daniele Watts: Django Unchained actor alleges racial bias after being held by LA police The couple were detained, though not arrested, by police last September after a complaint that they were having sex in their car, which was parked outside CBS studios in the Studio City area of Los Angeles.

One female political activist who fled to the UK after being detained, raped and tortured by police in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, said: "Many are raped by secret police and other security officials.

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