Sentence examples for wrongfully detained from inspiring English sources

It upheld three lesser counts of war crimes for not adequately protecting detained civilians and not punishing subordinates who had wrongfully detained them.

A Los Angeles Times report last year found that hundreds of people had been wrongfully detained in sheriff's department jails over a period of five years.

Both suits allege that Red Hills, acting on behalf of the government, wrongfully detained and jailed people who were too poor to afford court and probation fees.

Although the CIA would free Janat Gul after his accuser recanted, the total of CIA detainees whom the Senate considered wrongfully detained excludes him.

According to what the report says is the CIA's own internal accounting, at least 26 people were wrongfully detained out of 119 – approximately 22%.

Under this theory, neither the length of the detention, the conditions of their confinement, nor the fact that they have been wrongfully detained makes the slightest difference.

So when ICE wrongfully detains someone, it could take several days, or even weeks, for a court to address the error, according to Fleming, who is an attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center.

The third official was a former police supervisor in the 40th Precinct who the lawsuit charged had wrongfully had Ms. Gonzalez detained for 27 hours on criminal impersonation charges after she was stopped for running a red light.

In separate letters to the city of Irving, located west of Dallas, and the Irving independent school district, lawyers said the ninth grader was wrongfully arrested, illegally detained and questioned without his parents.

In 1942 she helped establish a defense committee for hundreds of Mexican Americans who were wrongfully arrested and detained in Los Angeles after the unexplained death of a man in an incident that came to be known as the Sleepy Lagoon murder.

A Quebec court has ordered two Montreal police officers to pay $15,000 to a prominent Canadian activist they wrongfully arrested and detained for five days in 2007.