Sentence examples for detaining power from inspiring English sources

Under the Geneva Convention, enlisted prisoners of war could work for the detaining power, said Matthias Reiss, a professor at the University of Exeter, in England, who has researched the history of German P.O.W.'s.

A POW can be interned "until the cessation of hostilities", but is otherwise subject to the same laws as those applied to the detaining power's soldiers.

The issue has sparked heated debate since Article 12 of the Third Geneva Convention (of which Canada is a signatory) states that "the Detaining Power [Canada] is responsible for the treatment given [to prisoners of war]".

This would clearly rule out the application of any robust interrogation methods on detainees by a detaining power.

History has shown that physicians of the detaining power are not above being complicit in detainee abuse.

[ 50] Military physicians who participate in interrogation sessions, either directly, or by resuscitating unconscious detainees for the purposes of further interrogation by the detaining power, could be determined as having diminished the ability of detainees to resist such treatment.

Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, who aided in the introduction of the terrorism act of 2000, has said that the government used "the wrong powers" when detaining Brazilian David Miranda at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws.

As he explained, "we know the government has some power to detain people in Australia and some power to remove people from Australia.

But the basic post-9/11 architecture of executive power — expansive powers to detain, interrogate and assassinate, claimed for the duration of an open-ended war — looks destined to endure for presidencies to come.

He was first detained under emergency powers that Mr. Musharraf invoked on Nov. 3.

The panel expressed concern that individuals detained under immigration powers were "increasingly being held in prison-like conditions".