Sentence examples for act of detention from inspiring English sources

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NGOs including UNHCR and MSF have scaled back their presence on the island, citing concerns about becoming complicit in the act of detention and deportation.

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In a news conference shortly before the release was announced, the government condemned the "criminal act" of his detention and said it would not give in to "blackmail".

If Israel respected refugee laws, ended random acts of administrative detention, provided equal rights and resources to all it's inhabitants, ended settlements and stopped supporting their illegal developments, and allowed people to speak their mind, organize peacefully and develop as free people - than I would probably dig deeper and find more to work on.

Armed robbery against ships means any unlawful act of violence or detention or any act of depredation or threat thereof, other than an act of "Piracy", directed against a ship or against person or property on board such ship, within a states jurisdiction over such offences2.

Alberti interpreted this collective act of refusing "gentler detention" (p. 141) [ 75] as a way for women in Pagani to resist the attempt to neutralize their political agency, challenging the representation of detained women as mere victims.

In 1950, during the rise of McCarthyism, the US passed the Emergency Detention Act authorizing detention of people who had not actually committed any act but who would "probably" engage in "acts of espionage or of sabotage" - the law was later repealed.

Section 23 of Labour's 2006 Terrorism Act extended the maximum period of detention of terrorist suspects before charge from 14 days to 28 days.

Other medical workers have also spoken out in defiance of the Border Force Act which criminalises the discussion of detention conditions by "entrusted persons".

In explaining his vote, Judge Garland complained that the administration had withheld certain evidence from the courts and said that upholding the designation "under such circumstances would be to place a judicial imprimatur on an act of essentially unreviewable executive detention".

This is not conspiracy theory, this is instead (sadly) historical fact -- the Emergency Detention Act of 1950 wasn't repealed until 1971, after the Media files were made public.

A coalition of immigrant Muslim groups endorsed George W. Bush in his 2000 campaign, only to find themselves ignored by Bush administration officials as their communities were rocked by the carrying out of the USA Patriot Act, the detention and deportation of Muslim immigrants and other security measures after Sept. 11.

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