release sb from detention

Frequency: 7.311.8 per million words

To set someone free from detention.

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Examples (10)

  • Human rights groups are campaigning to release the political prisoners from detention.
  • The journalist was finally released from detention after months of international pressure.
  • The court ordered the authorities to release him from detention immediately due to lack of evidence.
  • A formal appeal was filed to release the opposition leader from detention on humanitarian grounds.
  • The new government has promised to release all activists from detention.
  • If the DNA evidence proves his innocence, they will have to release the man from detention.
  • The lawyer successfully argued to release his client from pretrial detention.
  • After serving their sentence, the inmates were scheduled to be released from detention.
  • It is a complex legal process to release a foreign national from detention.
  • The judge has not yet signed the order to release the suspect from detention.