Sentence examples for detaining them from inspiring English sources

Then they began detaining them and asking them what happened.

Immigration agents profile people improperly, based on their apparent race or religion, detaining them at will.

The government then arrested Gettleman and two colleagues, detaining them for five days in harsh conditions.

This past week the union's parliament passed tough rules for expelling and detaining them.

The ministry said it was responsible for caring for the teenagers, not for detaining them.

The American official described the tactic as "arresting them, detaining them and, in some cases, killing them".

However, the police continued to arrest hundreds of people, bypassing the courts and detaining them without proper authority.

Then their authorities went and expelled a seasoned BBC correspondent and his camera crew, after detaining them for eight hours.

Several of them demanded that the police introduce themselves and explain their reasons for detaining them, but the cops remained silent.

"So why bother detaining them?" In Britain, the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford has raised similar questions about the usefulness of detention.

This tactic has often been used in Iran to frighten prominent people, without stoking more public anger by detaining them directly.