Sentence examples for just detained from inspiring English sources

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The moment Pi San picked up, the caller blurted out the news: State security agents had just detained Ai Weiwei, China's most famous contemporary artist and a government critic.

Is he just detained?

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Sometimes it may be just detaining and questioning.

The President proclaims the authority to hold anybody anytime by saying it will make the country safe by just detaining people.

The person comes and you just detain the person for some few hours and you say that is severe malaria.

"You just detain every child or adolescent with tattoos, even if you don't have any indication that they committed crimes".

The hero,returning from the Trojan War, is Odysseus, presumed to be dead, though his loyal wife, Penelope, and son Telemachus say he's just been detained.

The crime is serious, but that in itself is not a reason to say he can just be detained, willy-nilly, without due process".

Mr. Jiang, a lawyer who has long supported Mr. Chen, had just been detained and was sitting in a police car when Eva Pils, an associate professor of law in Hong Kong, called his cellphone.

He said the military had told him it had stopped detaining people, but John Sawers, the British ambassador, noted that Su Su Nway, an activist who has worked to rid Myanmar of forced labor, had just been detained.

As she rose to a podium to accept the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, she announced to the few hundred people present that she had just been detained by immigration agents.

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