Sentence examples for friends detained from inspiring English sources

"We were told by Obama that Guantanamo would close, and we feel betrayed," said former detainee Asif Iqbal, who was one of the Tipton Three threeee British friends detained from 2002 to 2004 after traveling to Afghanistan who became the subject of the 2006 film The Road to Guantanamo.

And a shipment of my recently published food memoir, which I intended to distribute to friends, was detained and sent back to the United States by Chinese customs officials, who explained that my books were not "approved materials".

With her two friends still detained in Iran's Evin Prison, Sarah Shourd insists her first days on American soil in 14 months have been bittersweet.

She said that her friend was detained for nearly two hours after an official visit to Pakistan, which was planned and co-ordinated by her employer, the World Bank.

Three men were arrested inside the apartment, and a man and woman, thought to be the landlord of the apartment and his friend, were detained in the immediate vicinity.

My friend was detained by Hafez Al-Assad for 13 years and now his son is detained by Bashar Al-Assad since 4 years".

Laura Ling, a former colleague and friend, was detained originally by North Korean border guards along with her colleague Euna Lee on March 17th.

In pajamas, squinting at my phone, I texted colleagues: "What do we do?" One responded: "My friend was detained last night on her way back from Iran… People are being handcuffed".

Long-serving aides and friends have been detained by the police and placed under judicial investigation.

During the recent protests, many more friends have been detained — most of them young — under the government's catch-all emergency laws.

One lawyer in Chongqing who represented Gong Gangmo, a motorbike mogul, has told friends he was detained by the police for 30 days and regularly beaten.