Sentence examples for imprisonment without charge from inspiring English sources

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Twelve years of imprisonment without charge.

The court upheld the practice of imprisonment without charge — called administrative detention — if used sparingly.

We call it "immigration detention", yet effectively it is open-ended imprisonment without charge.

Lord Nicholls said in his ruling: "Indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial is anathema in any country which observes the rule of law.

Moreover, if the government's evidence is not "usable" in court because of the brutal methods employed to obtain it, then surely it is not "usable" or reliable enough to justify long-term imprisonment without charge or trial.

The real drama was elsewhere though: in the deportation back to Zimbabwe of traffic warden Quentina (Wunmi Mosaku), and the false imprisonment without charge of Shahid Kamal (Danny Ashok) under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

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They are subject to imprisonment without charges.

But by the end of 2007, American officials, some of whom were disturbed at the imprisonment without charges of a United States citizen, signaled that they no longer insisted on Mr. Awlaki's incarceration, and he was released.

While we are glad that there is finally some development that may lead to the end of his imprisonment without charges, we are concerned still about the lack of specificity against him.

Several of the hunger strikers, including two Islamic Jihad members who have gone without food for 74 days and are near death, are demanding to be released from what is known as administrative detention — imprisonment without charges — which Israel says is a necessary tool to ensure security.

Former prisoners of the U.S.-run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have also given rise to new extremist groups after their release from years of imprisonment without charges or a day in court.

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