Sentence examples for prisoners without charge from inspiring English sources

Rushoodi was planning to sue the Interior Ministry for holding prisoners without charge.

The government acknowledges holding about 1,800 prisoners without charge under the emergency law, but human rights groups say the number could be closer to 10,000.

The US military continues to detain them and 2,400 other prisoners without charge or legal access, in contravention of the Geneva Convention.

It took a broad swipe at the administration's argument that some of its policies — like the indefinite detention of prisoners without charge at Guantánamo — were defensible under laws of armed conflict.

Of those to be released, roughly half were convicted on Israeli charges and half are in "administrative detention," under which Israel can hold prisoners without charge or trial for up to six months, with the possibility of extensions.

Though officials accuse the group of plotting to overthrow the government, the suspects spent three months in jail without being indicted until the 90-day limit to hold prisoners without charge expired.

Sirisena has not said whether he will repeal a controversial anti-terrorism law that activists say is being used to detain hundreds of Tamil prisoners without charges.

His captors, a coalition of Palestinian militant groups including members of the military wing of Hamas, had demanded that Israel release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners held without charge in Israeli prisons in return for Cpl Shalit's release.

In cases involving prisoners held without charge at Guantánamo Bay and the mentally retarded on death row, his version of American justice was propelled by common sense and moral clarity, and it commanded a majority.

Although Barack Obama stopped "enhanced" interrogation when he became president, the camp at Guantánamo Bay has not been emptied of prisoners held without charge; they should be put on trial or set free.

The government has made it a practice to publicize confessions from political prisoners held without charge or legal representation, often subjected to pressure tactics like sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and torture, according to human rights groups and former political prisoners.