Sentence examples for ongoing detentions from inspiring English sources

The ongoing detentions of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman held since April, and 76-year-old businessman Kamal Foroughi, a dual national in prison since May 2011, have undermined efforts by London and Tehran to improve relations.

"We remain deeply concerned by the ongoing detention," it said in a statement.

His case seems to me to be particularly important, and my witnessing of it particularly relevant to my ongoing detention.

"He has not been charged with any crime and has had no access to a lawyer so he can receive legal advice about his ongoing detention".

But there is a disconnect today between the wars that are ending and the "war" that is used to justify ongoing detention of prisoners.

But once that war came to an end, the basis for ongoing detention of North Vietnamese enemy soldiers ended, even if a cold war against communism continued.

Kargbo's lawyers filed another habeas petition, arguing that his ongoing detention had come to seem punitive, since it was improbable that he would be deported anywhere.

The ongoing detention and torture at the prison which turns fifteen in January as well as the ongoing fight to close it, occurs largely outside mainstream media coverage or public consciousness.

"We are troubled by the ongoing detention and solitary confinement of Maria Chin Abdullah under national security laws," Alicia Edwards, a spokeswoman for the US state department, told Reuters in an emailed statement.

When the political heat got too much for Howard over Hicks's ongoing detention at Guantanamo Bay in 2007, the US moved very quickly to bring on military commission proceedings.

Before sewing up his lips in protest at his ongoing detention on Manus Island, Hani said his final request was that he be able to see his teenage daughter, also an Australian citizen, who lives in Sydney.