imprison indefinitely
Frequency: 6.05.8 per million words
To put someone in prison for a period of time that is not fixed.
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- The dictator threatened to imprison dissidents indefinitely.
- Human rights groups condemned the decision to imprison the activists indefinitely.
- Under the new law, suspects can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial.
- No one should be imprisoned indefinitely without proper legal process.
- They were afraid the government would imprison them indefinitely.
- The court ruled that it was illegal to imprison citizens indefinitely without charge.
- She worried her brother might be imprisoned indefinitely by the regime.
- The international community called for the release of those imprisoned indefinitely.
- Such laws allow authorities to imprison individuals indefinitely on vague grounds.
- To imprison someone indefinitely is a severe violation of their fundamental rights.