Sentence examples for detained upon from inspiring English sources

She was detained upon landing, when she told the authorities she had felt claustrophobic.

More than a hundred people were detained upon landing, and American airports were soon besieged with protesters.

Late one night, an activist asked if Assange might be detained upon his arrival in the United States.

On 30 August, the prominent Bahraini human rights defender Maryam al-Khawaja, was detained upon her arrival in Manama, the country's capital.

This may come as a surprise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained upon her arrival at Iran's Khomeini airport back in April this year.

Early Saturday morning, there were reports that two Iraqi refugees had been detained upon their arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport.

In other European countries, like Belgium and Greece, asylum seekers are detained temporarily upon arrival.

New Jersey isn't the only place with such laws: In 20 states across the country, as well as at the federal level, sex offenders labeled high-risk can be detained indefinitely upon completion of their criminal sentences.

They were first detained, he said, upon their return from a failed attempt to reach Afghanistan, where they had hoped to fight on behalf of the Taliban.

It was troubling, too, to read Grunwald's tweet on a day when journalists were being threatened, detained, and set upon in Cairo — accused of being terrorist sympathizers, spies, or underminers of public safety — for reporting on the violence of the government's assault on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mr. Sharon's office sparked the tempest today by issuing a four-paragraph news release saying Dr. Diyab, who apparently lives in Qatar, was detained in November upon his arrival in Israel "on suspicion of transferring funds to terrorist organizations in general, and those connected to Al Qaeda in particular".