Sentence examples for detained instead of from inspiring English sources

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

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

Smith's son died Sunday, and one could easily imagine this story going a different way if the officers detained her instead of helping her say her goodbye. .

Civil liberties lawyers wanted to rebut claims by the police that its surveillance operations provided a legal basis for arresting and detaining people, instead of issuing them summonses.

And once detained, migrants say, instead of being sent back to their countries of origin, they are taken into custody in Oujda, a town near the Algerian border, where they are put in overcrowded cells and often humiliated or abused.

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.

When a small "kissing rally" of about two dozen protesters gathered outside the Duma on the day when it voted for the propaganda ban, it was brutally attacked, the police did not move to protect the participants, and detained some of them instead.

However, eyewitnesses indicate that, instead of detaining Ernst, agents led her outside onto the street, where she was immediately released.

They detain gay-rights activists instead of protecting them from violence — and then add to the beatings.

"This government has decided that instead of detaining members of al-Qaida [at Guantánamo], they are going to kill them," he told a conference at the Bipartisan Policy Centre.

Instead of detaining families, the US government should focus on improving the fairness and efficiency of the legal immigration legal system (which has glacially slow proceedings and enormous backlogs).