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detention

1. Law

a. custody or confinement, esp of a suspect awaiting trial

b. (as modifier): a detention order

2. a form of punishment in which a pupil is detained after school

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Detention

In stormwater management, ponding of runoff in pools and basins for water-quality improvement and flood prevention.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Detention

in Soviet law, the deprivation of freedom for a short period (not exceeding 72 hours) of a person suspected of committing a crime in order to prevent him, before the measure of restraint has been decided upon, from escaping, continuing his criminal activity, or hindering the establishment of the truth. Detention is applied only to persons suspected of committing a crime for which punishment in the form of deprivation of freedom may be assigned.

Detention is carried out by an agency of inquiry or by an investigator. Detention is permitted if the suspect was caught during commission of the crime or immediately after; if eyewitnesses, including victims, directly indicate the person as the one who committed the crime; and if traces of the crime are discovered on the suspect, on his clothing, or in his dwelling. In other instances the suspect may be detained if he attempted to escape, if he has no permanent residence, or if his identity has not been established.

Since detention is connected with the deprivation of freedom, the law provides for the necessary procedural guarantees of the legality and validity of this investigative action. An agency of inquiry or an investigator must draw up a record of any instance of detaining a suspect, indicating the grounds and reasons for detention, and notify the procurator of the detention within 24 hours. Upon receiving the notification the procurator is obliged, within 48 hours, to sanction confinement under guard or to free the person detained.

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The number of detentions was up from 2,475 in 2016/17.

Increase in detentions under Mental Health Act; people sectioned more than 2,500 times last year

ISLAMABAD -- The High Court in Indian occupied Kashmir has quashed the detention order under draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA), issued against Hurriyat leaders, Mushtaq-ul-Islam and Assadullah Parray, besides four other detainees and directed the puppet authorities to release them forthwith.

IOK court orders release of Mushtaq-ul-Islam, 5 others

In the past one month, the High Court has quashed more than 30 PSA detentions because of lacunae in police dossiers.

Detention under PSA without new charges mocks justice

TEHRAN (FNA)- Hassan Yousif, a senior leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the occupied West Bank, was released from Israeli prison, after spending nearly two years in administrative detention, a widely condemned policy of detention without charge or trial.

PLC Member Released from Israeli Prison after 22 Months in Detention without Charge

401 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are boycottingmilitary courts in protest of the inhumane Israeli policy of administrative detention, which violates international humanitarian law and enables the Israeli government to detain Palestinians indefinitely without trial.

Administrative detainees launch strike in Israeli courts and prisons

The Red Cross found over-crowding, inadequate mental health supports, a lack of support for detained children, and presence of mold in detention cells.

Electronic surveillance not an alternative to migrant detention

American immigration detention law is suffering from an existential crisis.

Civil detention and other oxymorons

Assuming, per Hamdi, (36) that Congress intended in 2001 to authorize the use of force in compliance with the law of war, (37) and considering that Congress expressly incorporated the law of war into the detention authority in the 2012 NDAA, (38) a survey of international law regarding such detentions may be pertinent to a determination of the detention authority preserved under the 2012 NDAA.

Background

The Obama administration should revise its detention policies in Afghanistan to make them consistent with international law, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.

US urged to revise Afghan detention policy

(64) Copies of the Department of State's "Suggested Fax Sheet for Notifying Consular Officials of Arrests or Detentions" can be found on page 9 of the Consular Notification and Access booklet, supra note 2, or at the U.S.

Consular notification and access: the "international golden rule"

He has done so in four key areas: in the Iraq War, in detentions here at home and abroad, in the torture scandal, and in the NSA warrantless spying program.

Grounds for impeachment

The significance of the post-September 11 period--the round-ups, secret detentions, registration of Muslim males and raids within immigrant communities--all of the new policies and practices of the war on terror take on deeper meaning when considered against the backdrop of immigration and race politics within the last two decades.

Scapegoats in the war on terror: the significance of the post-September 11 period takes on deeper meaning when considered against the backdrop of immigration and race politics within the last two decades