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Discover LudwigThe phrase "authorities incarcerated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the actions of authorities in relation to detaining individuals, typically in legal or law enforcement discussions.
Example: "The authorities incarcerated several individuals involved in the protest for violating local laws."
Alternatives: "authorities detained" or "authorities arrested".
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But he was supportive of the Rising and recovered his reputation when the British authorities incarcerated him in Reading Gaol (May December 1916).
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Oscar Wilde - Poet and author incarcerated at Reading Gaol.
To prove the point, Russian authorities already incarcerated three Dutch tourists in the Arctic city of Murmansk who were making a documentary on LGBTQ rights in Russia.
In a damning indictment of the rule of law in Russia, the tribunal found that the country's courts had "bent to the will of Russian executive authorities" to "incarcerate a man who gave signs of becoming a political competitor".
However, instead of receiving protection from the authorities, Fauziya was incarcerated for 16 months in New Jersey prisons because FGM was not yet established as persecution under United States' laws.
Providers were frustrated with client mistrust, suspected racial bias, and not seeing anybenefit of urine drug testing when it was done by community medical providers who do not have the authority to incarcerate based upon the results.
By this variation on Catch 22, any woman persistently challenging police authority can be incarcerated in the psychopathic wing of the LA County Hospital, an inhumane institution run by sadistic nurses and bigoted doctors.
In 2009 he was beaten by the police for attempting to testify at the trial of liberal intellectual Tan Zuoren and most famously in 2011 he was detained and incarcerated by the authorities for 81 days and questioned about his "subversive activities".
BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than 2,100 people incarcerated by the Syrian authorities were being released on Wednesday in return for 48 Iranians freed by rebels after five months in captivity, Turkish and Iranian officials said, in what appeared to be the biggest prisoner swap since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria began almost two years ago.
When he wasn't at home in the Shrine, his self-styled "court" of the common people (a compound in downtown Lagos, and also the location of his infamous nightclub), he often spent time incarcerated by the Nigerian authorities at the behest of numerous angry and embarrassed presidents.
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