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  2. Detention (confinement) - Wikipedia

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    The process of detainment may or may not have been preceded or followed with an arrest. Detainee is a term used by certain governments and their armed forces to refer to individuals held in custody, such as those it does not classify and treat as either prisoners of war or suspects in criminal cases. It is used to refer to "any person captured ...

  3. Detention - Wikipedia

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    Detention (confinement), the restriction of liberty of someone suspected or accused of a crime Detention basin, an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of time

  4. Detainment (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film has an 83% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10. [4]Malcolm Stevens, who oversaw the detention of the killers as the former Home Secretary's professional adviser, defended the making of the film in an editorial, saying that it raised questions regarding the treatment of young offenders which he felt "successive ...

  5. Arbitrary arrest and detention - Wikipedia

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    Virtually all individuals who are arbitrarily arrested are given no explanation as to why they are being arrested, and they are not shown any arrest warrant. [4] Depending on the social context, many or the vast majority of arbitrarily arrested individuals may be held incommunicado and their whereabouts can be concealed from their family, associates, the public population and open trial courts.

  6. Sigurimi - Wikipedia

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    The mission of the Sigurimi was to prevent counterrevolutions and to suppress opposition to the existing political system. Although groups of Albanian émigrés sought Western support for their efforts to overthrow the Communist government in the late 1940s and early 1950s, they quickly ceased to be a credible threat because of the effectiveness of the Sigurimi.

  7. Indefinite detention - Wikipedia

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    Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial.The Human Rights Watch considers this practice as violating national and international laws, particularly human rights laws, although it remains in legislation in various liberal democracies.

  8. Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center - Wikipedia

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    The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) refers to a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay detention camp and is a United States facility within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba used to detain non-US citizens regarding immigration status.

  9. Detaining Power - Wikipedia

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    A Detaining Power is the country, state, government, or any other jurisdiction which detains, holds, or incarcerates those who are alleged to have committed an offence against this jurisdiction or others (which for whatever reason have not been or will be proven not to be fit to process the detainees in question).