Sentence examples for confinement without charge from inspiring English sources

The six include Emad Abdullah Hassan, who has been on hunger strikes since 2007 in protest of his confinement without charge since 2002.

Obama renewed his commitment to closure this spring when detainees went on a hunger strike to protest indefinite confinement without charge, now going on for 12 years.

"It has been four years now, almost four years, since I was first detained in this country in solitary confinement without charge," said Assange.

Dhiab, captured in 2002 and cleared for release in 2009, is over 6ft tall and weighs 152lbs, and has been hunger striking for years to protest his confinement without charge.

When it detained two American citizens as "enemy combatants" and held them in solitary confinement without charge and without access to counsel, its lawyers first argued that the courts could not even consider lawsuits filed on their behalf.

Dhiab, who has spent much of his 12 years at Guantánamo hunger striking to protest his confinement without charge, wants Kessler to bar his captors from repeatedly removing and reinserting his feeding tubes, a process he describes as torturous, and using guards to forcibly remove him from his cell for the feeding.

But they were nonetheless significant, marking the first time Mr. Padilla's military jailers were forced to speak publicly about the conditions of his secretive confinement without charges.

She was held in prison for 28 months, mostly in solitary confinement, without being charged.

The committee's merciless and illegal treatment of the hapless general entailed unofficial allegations of treason, as well as imprisonment for six months — much of it in solitary confinement — without formal charges or legal representation.

Inside the United States, the most radical departure from law as we have known it is President Bush's claim that he can designate any American citizen an "enemy combatant" -- and thereupon detain that person in solitary confinement indefinitely, without charges, without a trial, without a right to counsel.

The colleagues were held for 10 days in solitary confinement before they were finally released without charge.