Sentence examples for mistakenly detained from inspiring English sources

The government has mistakenly detained hundreds of men — that we know of — on suspicion of terrorism in the last 10 years.

By Steve Coll March 21, 2018 On average, a hundred and fifty Americans are mistakenly detained for deportation proceedings every year.

In Los Angeles, some Muslims were mistakenly detained for days because they lacked the proper paperwork because of delays and inefficiencies in the government's processing of applications for work permits, green cards and other services.

The government's aim is to streamline the process of checking travelers' names against its watch lists — a task currently handled separately by each airline — and to collect more detailed information so passengers with names similar to those on the watch list are less likely to be mistakenly detained.

Khalid El-Masri was a German citizen mistakenly detained in Macedonia in late 2003 because his name was similar to that of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist, Khalid al-Masri.

In essence, between ourselves, while Greg was negotiating the final details of bringing the Uighurs [Chinese Muslims mistakenly detained in Guantanamo] into America, after it had been signed off on by the Task Force, the Deputies Committee AND the Principals Committee, without telling Greg, the 'Front Office' eg. Rahm killed it by slow rolling it.

ICE did not immediately respond to a request for statistics showing how often the agency mistakenly detains U.S. citizens, but a 2011 study by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law indicates that it does happen.

ICE declined to comment on the specifics of the case, but said the agency has taken steps to reduce the number of U.S. citizens it mistakenly detains.

If, for example, someone were detained mistakenly in a small village, would the detainee's personal representative have the time or ability to get a military unit to the village, find village elders and persuade them to testify on his behalf?

Ahmed, 14, was detained by police in Texas after a teacher mistakenly thought the clock he brought into MacArthur High School, in Irving, was a hoax bomb.

As for profiling, the Times offered this: "Two young black men were detained in handcuffs before being released with the terse explanation that they had mistakenly been stopped because they matched the general description of the robbers").