Sentence examples for detained hours from inspiring English sources

Hardial Singh Johal, former head of a Vancouver-area Sikh temple, was detained hours before Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, both followers of a fundamentalist Sikh group, appeared in court in Vancouver.

The protesters had blocked the highway at four points to demand the release of the leader of the local community police leader, Cemei Verdia, who had been detained hours before.

Wanda rushed to the accident and was detained for hours.

The report in Beijing News said the six suspects were detained 40 hours after the beating.

We were roughly handled by some policemen and then detained for hours.

On at least one occasion a messenger was detained for hours for delivering while looking young and hip.

One reporter from Hong Kong was detained for hours, prompting an unusual official acknowledgment that the police might have overdone it.

Road users complain of routine humiliations at checkpoints where busloads of passengers can be detained for hours.

Officers and inspectors have been detained for hours by criminal mobs that set their vehicles on fire.

On several occasions, merely because he asked why he had been stopped, he was handcuffed, placed in a cell and detained for hours before being released without charges.

By her account, she was roughed up, strip-searched, shouted at and detained for hours until her well-connected family and friends managed to get her released.