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She also said about a dozen unaccompanied children were being detained instead of being released to family members or possible sponsors in the community.

A defendant would have the right to see a lawyer from the moment he is detained, instead of after 20 hours.

At the home he runs, young offenders are put up in houses of eight instead of being detained in traditional pavilion-style detention centres.

(Participant 17) Some service users compared being detained to that of imprisonment.

The most common threat experienced by voluntary patients was of being detained.

The odds of being detained did not differ with age or diagnosis.

4 Conversely, the numbers of people detained under the Mental Health Act reached a record high in 2011/12 with 48 600 people being detained, a 5% rise on 2010/11 levels.

As for why Liu was detained for 16 hours instead of the 36 hours the local police department is authorized to hold a person before charging them or releasing them and continuing an investigation, Elder said the investigator "decided it wasn't necessary to hold onto him, that we can conduct a fair and thorough investigation" without having Liu in custody.

Yasji realized that if she openly criticized the government, she would likely be detained or exiled so instead, she engaged in more subtle forms of activism.

In 1950 he was detained on charges of espionage.

Mr. Yin was detained on charges of endangering public safety.