"detainees" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to individuals who are being held in custody, typically by authorities such as law enforcement or immigration officials. An example sentence using "detainees" could be: "The immigration center currently holds over 200 detainees who are awaiting their asylum hearings."
The techniques inflicted on the detainees included hooding suspects, putting them into stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation and the use of white noise.
"We have seen detainees' mental and physical health deteriorate in immigration detention and we fear for this man's wellbeing given his existing reported vulnerabilities".
Like him, the other detainees had been snatched by US soldiers from Iraq's towns and cities and flown to a place that had already become infamous: a foreboding desert fortress that would shape the legacy of the US presence in Iraq.
A recent Channel 4 News undercover investigation found evidence of the poor treatment of detainees.
When the Manus camp flooded, detainees found snakes in their rooms.
Ragia Omran, a lawyer for the Cairo-based Arab Human Rights Institute who visited Fahmy in prison on Wednesday, said his shoulder, already dislocated from a previous fall, had been fractured when the detainees were transported to Cairo's Qasr en-Nil police station for interrogation.
In 2004, he and Menzies Campbell made the unusual decision to meet me, as a solicitor acting for Guantánamo detainees, to give me witness statements about a conversation they'd had with George W Bush on a visit by him to the UK.
The Washington Post was similarly emphatic in its own editorial, following graphic details of treatment meted out to detainees in CIA custody with a clear: "This is not how Americans should behave.
Why that law would be ignored to bring terrorist-trained detainees into American cities has not been answered by this administration," McConnell said in a statement that signalled an early, sustained and thus-far successful fight to prevent the closure of Guantánamo Bay.
According to 2009 testimony to a US House subcommittee, the Uighur detainees were subject to sleep deprivation, frigid temperatures and isolation.
A few detainees were kept in solitary cells in the security branch's basement.
