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Over the past 15 years, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, blindfolded, interrogated, and put under house arrest with a 20-year ban on making films.
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Bolsonaro is under house arrest, surrounded by guards to prevent him from fleeing to a foreign embassy to request asylum.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Leni Riefenstahl, although briefly kept under house arrest by French occupation forces and tried four times by denazification courts, was never formally convicted of complicity in the crimes of the Nazis.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Conditions of pre-trial release can include unsecured bond, secured bond, supervision or house arrest.
—Avi Bajpai, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Bolsonaro is under house arrest, surrounded by guards to prevent him from fleeing to a foreign embassy to request asylum.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Leni Riefenstahl, although briefly kept under house arrest by French occupation forces and tried four times by denazification courts, was never formally convicted of complicity in the crimes of the Nazis.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Conditions of pre-trial release can include unsecured bond, secured bond, supervision or house arrest.
—Avi Bajpai, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for house arrest
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“House arrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20arrest. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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