The phrase "a detainee of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is being held in custody, typically by a government or law enforcement agency.
Example: "The report detailed the conditions faced by a detainee of the immigration facility."
Alternatives: "a prisoner of" or "a captive of".
"They've said he's not a detainee of ours, he's not in Guantánamo.
The detention services order 3/2014 states "a minimum of 72 hours must be allowed between informing a detainee of removal directions and the removal itself".
"Somewhere on his way up those steps," writes Mori, "he ceased being a detainee of the United States and regained his rights as a citizen of Australia".
Last week, I was on the phone with my client, Abu Wa'el Dhiab – a detainee of the US government at Guantánamo Bay who has been cleared of any involvement in terrorism – discussing our litigation and whether he had reason to believe he might one day be released.
A detainee of a Military Security branch in Homs witnessed an elderly man being severely beaten, and then hung by his wrists from the ceiling.
Pages and pages of the analysis were comprised of a lawyer sitting at his desk in Washington attempting to determine whether the amount of physical and psychological pain resulting from an "enhanced interrogation" technique on a detainee, of unknown physical condition, in a cell 5,000 miles away, was "severe".
Even if no one registers an objection, officials say, the 30-day holding pattern persists, freezing into place the complex machinery of getting a detainee out of Guantánamo Bay.
Keeping a detainee out of the general prison population "may diminish the need to conduct some aspects of the searches at issue".
The agents get their first big break when they pull a detainee out of confinement.
Republican lawmakers have criticized a decision to turn over to Iraqi custody a detainee accused of helping to kill American troops in the Iraq war.
But Guido R. Newbrough was born German, and he died in November as an immigration detainee of a Virginia jail, his heart devastated by an overwhelming bacterial infection.
