Given the tens of thousands of civilians killed by US, British and other Nato forces both from the air and on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen over the last decade, perhaps Nato commanders prefer not to detain themselves with such comparative trifles.
Both mass incarceration and mass deportation deliver some of their most destructive effects to the family members of the individuals imprisoned or detained who find themselves denied parents, partners, and vital economic support despite having done broken no laws themselves.
And refugees already on flights when the order was signed on Friday found themselves detained upon arrival.
There he joined two other Dreamers, Lulu Martínez and Lizbeth Mateo, and, a few days later, the three headed to the U.S. border to get themselves detained.
On Friday morning, the official said, they "trekked into Iranian territory, knowingly or unknowingly, and found themselves detained by the Iranians".
Next Thursday, Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, will travel to Bahrain after calling for the immediate release of all those detained for expressing themselves.
Several activists got themselves detained so they could enter the Broward Transitional Center, a pre-deportation jail in Florida, and interview detainees.
In Wythenshawe, home to the second-largest Chagossian community in Britain, descendants and their relatives have found themselves detained in immigration centres.
If they were late or forgot a notebook, students might find themselves detained after school for what Jesuits called "jug," spending an hour in the courtyard walking in circles.
In another action earlier this year, N.I.Y.A. "infiltrated" a federal detention center — the group's term for when activists deliberately get themselves detained so that they can document conditions inside and inform other detainees of their rights.
