Sentence examples for became detainees from inspiring English sources

Which is why, when the US border patrol opened its doors to give journalists a tour of the facilities where it is temporarily housing thousands of children in nowhere near appropriate condition with nowhere else to go, those children became "detainees".

There, on August 5 , 2002 he became detainee 760 at Camp Delta.

In fact, a number of individuals who, in the Bush years, would undoubtedly have become detainees there landed in federal court instead, including bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and Abu Hamza al-Masri, an al-Qaeda operative accused of trying to build a terrorist cell in the United States.

Mohammed Refai became a detainee on Sept. 18, after federal investigators in Arkansas found documents that appeared to connect one of the terrorist hijackers, Saeed Alghamdi, with an apartment complex in Akron, Ohio.

Even though Second Life participants -- their avatars -- become virtual detainees instead of real ones, the purpose of the experience is less video game folly and more high-minded.

After that episode, Private Manning said, he became interested in detainees, which led him to the Guantánamo files.

Detainees became "agitated" and began chanting during the meeting, Morrison told media on Monday afternoon.

"Once the decoration job happened, detainees became curious," Wisconsin's WTMJ reported.

In the view of some, these harsher techniques eventually "migrated" to Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where abusive treatment of detainees became an international embarrassment for the US.

History lessons in school skated over them; foreign books on them were banned; the families of victims and political detainees became, says Katharine McGregor of Melbourne University, Indonesia's "untouchables".

As detainees became more cooperative, their treatment was adjusted accordingly, with incrementally improved rewards and detention in better facilities.