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We need to get their teacher, Nancy Pelosi, and put them in dentention.
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That makes you a terrorist, hence: dentention without trial for you.
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Egypt: Legal aid workers describe dentention, interrogation
Egypt protests continue as Mubarak's government offers concessions Compiled by Ian Saleh 2011
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Maybe having a few martyrs held in indefinite unlawful dentention would provide a rallying cry for their breatheren.
Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate 2009
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The remaining two dentention facilities, Camp Cropper and Camp Taji, are scheduled to be handed over to the Iraqis next year.
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This evening May 15, Friday after the closure of visiting hours, the dentention center pro-actively came out to claim to the press that Chen has taken 400 cc of rice congee and "is now in good health".
Taiwan News on most recent Chen Shui-bian detention Michael Turton 2009
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DENVER -- Free speech advocates have been arguing for weeks against the Denver city government's plan to use so-called protest zones to control protest during the Democratic National Convention, but locals here this past weekend staged a protest at the warehouse dentention facility discovered by area bloggers and reporters, Westword newspaper writer Jared Jacang Maher and KCNC CBS affiliate reporter Rick Sallinger, last week.
Erik Lassi: Groups Protest Police Warehouse "Processing Center" In Denver 2008
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Justices Souter and Ginsburg concurred in the judgment, arguing that Hamdi's dentention was illegal, but specifically agreeing with the plurality (in order to create a majority holding for the case) that Hamdi had a Due Process right of access to the courts to challenge the legality of his detention. [from CNN]:
Balkinization 2004
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Justices Souter and Ginsburg concurred in the judgment, arguing that Hamdi's dentention was illegal, but specifically agreeing with the plurality (in order to create a majority holding for the case) that Hamdi had a Due Process right of access to the courts to challenge the legality of his detention. [from CNN]:
Balkinization 2004
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Justices Souter and Ginsburg concurred in the judgment, arguing that Hamdi's dentention was illegal, but specifically agreeing with the plurality (in order to create a majority holding for the case) that Hamdi had a Due Process right of access to the courts to challenge the legality of his detention. [from CNN]:
Balkinization 2004
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