indefinitely detain
Frequency: 7.211.2 per million words
To hold or keep someone for an unlimited or unspecified period of time.
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- Prisoners cannot be detained indefinitely without charge.
- The new legislation allows authorities to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists.
- Human rights groups protested the government's power to indefinitely detain individuals.
- Under the emergency decree, he was indefinitely detained and denied access to a lawyer.
- Is it ethical to indefinitely detain someone who has not been convicted of a crime?
- The general gave the order to indefinitely detain all enemy sympathizers.
- The report revealed that hundreds of political opponents were being indefinitely detained.
- A fundamental principle of justice is that no one should be indefinitely detained without a fair trial.
- The regime has been known to indefinitely detain anyone who speaks out against it.
- Being indefinitely detained took a severe psychological toll on the asylum seekers.