Definition of detainee
: a person held in custody especially for political reasons
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Camp 16, also known as Hwason Camp, is a concentration camp very close to the Punggye-ri nuclear test site that holds political detainees who have no chance of being released.
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This week roughly hundreds of detainees were transferred to a medium-security prison in Victorville, California.
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One of those detainees, was suspected in the bombing of the USS Cole.
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The release of the detainees is the communist country's latest gesture of goodwill toward the United States in advance of an unprecedented summit between leaders Kim Jong Un and President Trump.
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Initially paid by the day, Mitchell and Jessen eventually formed a private company that was paid $81 million by the CIA for managing most of the detention and interrogation of the agency’s 119 detainees.
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According to the New York Times, Haspel oversaw the torture of detainees in 2002 and later destroyed interview tapes.
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The law also prohibits local officers from asking detainees about their immigration status.
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The House of Representatives has voted to require Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to determine whether U.S. military or intelligence personnel violated the law in interrogations of detainees in Yemen.
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First Known Use of detainee
circa 1928
DETAINEE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of detainee for English Language Learners
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: a person who is being kept in a prison especially for political reasons : a person who is being detained
Law Dictionary
legal Definition of detainee
: a person who is detained;
especially
: a person held in custody prior to trial or hearing
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