Sentence examples for years without a trial from inspiring English sources

Irony of ironies:  Afiuni has been detained for over two years without a trial date.

The amendment, to the existing Law to Prevent Infiltration, makes it possible to detain illegal migrants and their children for up to three years without a trial.

Right after I left the Viana prison, the authorities fast-tracked the release of more than 1,000 prisoners, one of whom had been there for 15 years without a trial.

Previously, the legislation allowed the government to hold the undocumented — often refugees escaping from countries beset by famine, oppression, and mass murder — for up to three years without a trial, in a detention center in southern Israel.

As he left the green, I approached and said, "Mr. President, I'm a local lawyer who represents Americans in foreign prisons and I have an innocent client, Jim Williams from Jacksonville, Fla., who's been languishing in prison for two years without a trial in Ecuador".

The police can send suspects for re-education for up to four years without a trial.

Today, about 45,000 people are remitted to Rikers each year only because they can't post bail at the time of arraignment, and 1,500 of the about 9,000 inmates currently at Rikers have been there for more than a year without a trial.

The twenty-two-year-old, who endured three years on Rikers Island without a trial, committed suicide on Saturday.

How do we justify holding a child for years without charges — without a trial to determine that he even is a terrorist?

"Violence Inside Rikers" Security camera footage from inside Rikers Island depicts the abuse that one teen-ager endured during his three years in jail without a trial.

Last year the head of the congress's standing committee, Zhu Senlin, even took aim at China's controversial "re-education through labor" system, where citizens can be sentenced up to three years in prison without a trial.