Sentence examples for long detention from inspiring English sources

I walked away from Steve's cell overcome by the pointlessness of his long detention.

His lawyer's claim that Duch's human rights were being violated by his long detention drew laughter from Cambodian spectators.

In July, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan agreed with prosecutors that Mr. Ghailani's long detention did not violate his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

Of the 778 prisoners kept in Guantánamo, fewer than 300 now remain: most of the rest have been repatriated, after long detention, without facing charges.

The prison was recently the scene of unrest, with some 400 prisoners staging a hunger strike in May to protest their long detention without trial.

The detained activists are from 18 countries, including Russia, and a long detention or trials could draw unwelcome international attention to Russia's tough policy against protests.

In some instances even the Chinese police have struggled to define the crimes, resulting in long detentions without clear charges or a trial.

Immigration judges are often reluctant to issue a final order of removal against children who do not have a lawyer and instead continue the cases, resulting in long detentions, Mr. Morton said.

Karen Kraushaar, a spokeswoman for the I.N.S., said that contrary to his contention, the agency had recently released people from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Jordan after long detentions, even since Sept. 11.

With the United States on the verge of releasing 7,000 prisoners seized during the war in Iraq, lawyers and human rights advocates say they hope the contrast with the long detentions here will put more pressure on the administration to deal with the people captured in Afghanistan and other countries in the campaign against terrorism.

Along the way, migrants endure kidnappings, long detentions, hunger, and sickness.