Sentence examples for are detainees. from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement
There are detainees at Guantánamo who are dangerous murderers.
At least three of the team are detainees who have only recently been released after months in prison.
Among those being held at Bagram are detainees from a range of countries, including Yemen, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Kuwait.
The press secretary for the county executive, Elaine King, said 85percentt of the county's jail population are detainees, prisoners who are awaiting trial or sentencing.
The men are detainees in the central prison in Hama, western Syria: some were arrested during the peaceful Arab Spring protests in 2011 and have been held without trial since.
The whole family are detainees, and their father is considered by Australian authorities to be an extreme security risk, "plainly a dangerous terrorist" in the words of the attorney general George Brandis.
A lot of these guys were detainees.
There was no evidence, the court concluded, that the men were detainees from Srebrenica.
There are 45 detainees at Guantánamo currently.
There are 116 detainees currently at Guantánamo.
There are 174 detainees remaining at Guantánamo.
