Sentence examples for were being detained from inspiring English sources

The four, he said, were being detained as illegal immigrants.

Initially, she did not know where they were being detained.

Seventy-five families were being detained while they awaited the outcome of their political-asylum petitions.

Activists said that doctors trying to treat the wounded were being detained.

As of May 31, the Home Office said, 1,787 people were being detained.

United Nations soldiers around Sarajevo were being detained or threatened by the Serbs.

The three were being detained with adults in direct contravention of international law, the report says.

North Korea said Friday that four South Koreans charged with entering the North illegally were being detained.

As of late Thursday, they were being detained on civil immigration violations and had not been charged with a crime.

This came on the day that The New York Times reported that at least 30 earthquake survivors were being detained.

He said an additional 156 Tibetans, including 23 women, were being detained at the city's main jail.