"detainee of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is being held in custody or confinement. Example: The detainee of the prison was finally released after serving a ten-year sentence for robbery.
He said, "It was used to absolutely strip the detainee of any dignity.
"They've said he's not a detainee of ours, he's not in Guantánamo.
But Guido R. Newbrough was born German, and he died in November as an immigration detainee of a Virginia jail, his heart devastated by an overwhelming bacterial infection.
The detention services order 3/2014 states "a minimum of 72 hours must be allowed between informing a detainee of removal directions and the removal itself".
"Somewhere on his way up those steps," writes Mori, "he ceased being a detainee of the United States and regained his rights as a citizen of Australia".
Re "U.S. Jury Acquits Former Detainee of Most Charges" (front page, Nov. 18): The verdict in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, accused of a role in the 1998 bombing of two American embassies in Africa, was a triumph for the American system of justice.
Though damned across the spectrum, the camp offered a solution to the problem of keeping dangerous detainees out of circulation.
And it would strip detainees of a habeas corpus right to challenge their detentions in court.
"It was standard operating procedure to hood, stress and deprive detainees of sleep, water and food.
During a recent parliamentary inquiry, Andrew Metcalfe, the Immigration and Citizenship Department secretary, accused Iranian detainees of "contumacious behavior, willful disobedience".
He blames the Geneva Convention's drafters for not knowing detainees of modern "asymmetrical" wars would need rougher treatment.
