detention camp
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a camp where people are detained, often while awaiting a decision on their legal status
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- The political prisoners were sent to a high-security detention camp.
- Thousands of civilians were held in the detention camp during the war.
- Journalists were denied access to the remote detention camp on the island.
- The journalist was taken to an undisclosed detention camp for political prisoners.
- Conditions inside the overcrowded detention camp have been described as inhumane.
- Human rights organizations are demanding access to the remote detention camp.
- He spent six months in a detention camp before his asylum application was processed.
- Conditions inside the overcrowded detention camp have been described as appalling.
- The government is facing criticism for its policy of holding children in a detention camp.
- He wrote a powerful memoir detailing his experiences in a detention camp as a child.
- After the coup, many opposition leaders were taken to a military detention camp.
- The government plans to build a new detention camp to house asylum seekers.
- The film documents the harrowing experiences of people who survived the detention camp.
- Several inmates managed to escape from the heavily guarded detention camp.
- What legal authority allows the state to operate such a detention camp without judicial oversight?
- After being captured, the soldiers were sent to a military detention camp.
- The Red Cross has requested regular visits to monitor the welfare of inmates at the detention camp.
- News reports revealed the shocking existence of several secret detention camps.
- Escape from the heavily guarded detention camp was considered nearly impossible.
- For years, the location of the detention camp remained a state secret.