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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

Detention

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

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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References in periodicals archive ?

After all, preventive detention cannot be used as an instrument to keep a person in perpetual custody without trial,' Justice Rabstan observed, while quashing PSA detention of Mushtaq-ul-Islam.

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

The 4th PSA detention of Ghulam Nabi Gojri, a resident of Qadeem Pora in Sopore, was recently quashed by the High Court, but he has been slapped with yet another PSA - all this within a span of two months.

Detention under PSA without new charges mocks justice

Yousif, also known as Hassan Salamah, 60, was detained after Israeli forces raided his house in Beituniya on October 20, 2015 three months after being released from a previous year-long administrative detention amidst accusations of "incitement" against Israel, Ma'an reported.

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

On July 1 st , more than 60 Palestinian administrative detainees held in Israeli prisons started boycotting Israel's military courts in a protest of this administrative detention policy as well as the fake trials they go through, writes the Alternative Information Centre (AIC).

Administrative detainees launch strike in Israeli courts and prisons

See also Raquel Aldana, "The September 11 Immigration Detentions and Unconstitutional Executive Legislation" (2004) 29:1 S Ill ULJ 5 at 11 (describing how the September 11 immigrant detentions were employed as a law enforcement tool, with immigration enforcement as a secondary goal).

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

HUNDREDS of Huddersfield children were given detention - for forgetting items like rubbers and sharpeners.

Rulergate: Detention for hundreds of kids

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

In these situations, consular officers, if notified of the detention, can provide their citizens with vital support, such as "attempting to ensure that they receive a fair and speedy trial with benefit of counsel; visiting them in prison to ensure that they are receiving humane treatment; and facilitating communications with their families.

Consular notification and access: the "international golden rule"

The second ground for impeachment is Bush's illegal detentions, in the United States and abroad.

Grounds for impeachment

My host on these visits was an inmate named Mark Joseph, a 30-year-old Haitian-American man who had shuttled through jail and detention prisons for 11 years.

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

In a citation of Korematsu, O'Connor quoted not the majority that upheld the military detentions but the dissenting opinion of Justice Frank Murphy: "Like other claims conflicting with the asserted constitutional rights of the individuals, the military claim must subject itself to the judicial process of having its reasonableness determined and its conflicts with other interests reconciled.

Civil liberties and enemy combatants: why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America