Sentence examples for brief detention from inspiring English sources

The reason for his relatively brief detention remains unknown.

There are no indications that the sailors were harmed during their brief detention".

The reason for his relatively brief detention in Iran remains unknown, the senior official said.

There was no official explanation for Daoud's brief detention and deportation from Egypt.

Mr. Teng, the Beijing lawyer, wrote an essay in December about being beaten during a brief detention that month.

The brief detention of Mr. Nusseibeh, with two of his colleagues and his son, was in some respects a throwback.

Two were released after brief detentions but the remaining journalists remain in custody.

After several brief detentions during their year of defiant organizing, Wang Zecheng and Wang Wenjiang were both arrested for good in June 1999.

It says the government now favors brief detentions over long sentences because they intimidate without hurting Cuba's image abroad.

At a hearing last December, government lawyers agreed that it was not, although the courts generally allow brief detentions for investigative purposes.

It shows the diverse ways a writer can be persecuted - from brief detentions and fines, to long-term imprisonment, exile and the ultimate form of censorship - death.