Sentence examples for detainees situation from inspiring English sources

That the hunger strike is, in large part, a reflection of the increasing hopelessness of the detainees' situation is obvious to all parties, as well as a direct consequence of the policies of the Obama administration.

Mr. Clement argued that the detainees' situation was analogous to that of 21 Germans who were captured in China at the end of World War II and held by American authorities in a prison in Germany.

As the battle for public opinion over the issue of the detentions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, heats up, relatives of three of the prisoners there began a tour yesterday of New York and Washington to draw attention to the detainees' situation.

The detainee situation in Iraq was comparable to Guantánamo Bay, he added, but on a much larger scale, and the detentions appeared to be "arbitrary and indefinite".

"Mr. Secretary, our recent visit to see the detainee situation for ourselves provided an enormously useful opportunity to understand the essential work that has been done there, which we have supported," Mr. McCain wrote, along with Mr. Graham and Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington.

Bush administration officials said Wednesday that they were trying to comply with the Supreme Court's decision limiting their ability to imprison people indefinitely at Guantánamo Bay, by making some changes to a recently enacted program to review each detainee's situation every year.

The mental health impacts on detainees make the situation untenable, and open Australia to compensation cases.

The Tehran prosecutor, Mr. Dowlatabadi, was quoted on Press TV as saying, "We decided to take the detainee's health situation into account and grant her bail".

We believe these recommendations, if fully implemented, will help improve the department's handling of detainees in other situations, both larger scale and smaller scale, that may arise in the future.

Whilst those working in the detention system experience their own trauma, the situation for detainees is untenable.

An hour later, the ministry posted an update, noting that "during the handling of the situation, the detainees captured an officer from their security detail, and the security forces are currently undertaking to free him".