Sentence examples for imprisonment without trial from inspiring English sources
More than that, it is de facto imprisonment without trial.
They are subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without trial, or trial by military court.
The report also lists disappearances and imprisonment without trial around the world.
More recently gays remained liable to imprisonment without trial in re-education camps.
In 1784 the king's use of lettres de cachet for purposes of arbitrary imprisonment without trial was considerably curtailed.
No one should be in jeopardy of indefinite imprisonment without trial on mere suspicion; nothing excuses it, not even serious terrorist threats.
Has there been a payoff in everyday life for the indignities of the American years -- the cars stopped or sometimes shot up at road checkpoints, the American patrols trooping through fields and searching homes, the terrifying night raids, the imprisonments without trial, or the way so many Afghans continue to be treated like foreigners, if not criminal suspects, in their own country? .
He felt passionately about internment without trial, which since its introduction in August 1971 had seen the imprisonment of around 900 people, virtually all of them nationalists.
In this case the terrible things are pre-emptive war (that is, aggression), targeted assassinations, "coercive interrogations" (torture lite) and indefinite imprisonment of suspects without trial or counsel.
The Commons responded to these measures by insisting that the Magna Carta, which expressly forbade the imprisonment of freemen without trial, was still valid.
