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Meanings of indefinite detention in English

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Usage of indefinite detention in English
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All three men suffered from mental illness after years of indefinite detention.
Radio NZ
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Ask the government to immediately end off-shore, indefinite detention of all asylum seekers.
The Guardian
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Others said they became dependent on the drugs as they faced indefinite detention.
Reuters
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Labor supports regional processing but doesn't want it to degenerate into indefinite detention.
The Guardian
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After six years, about 800 people remain in indefinite detention on Manus and Nauru.
Radio NZ
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Manus Island refugees say they're being punished by Australia for escaping persecution with indefinite detention.
Radio NZ
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Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere.
The Guardian
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They were refusing food to protest their indefinite detention.
The Guardian
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The men are protesting their indefinite detention amid fears of moving closer to island's community.
Radio NZ
10
The Greens' policy is to abolish offshore processing and "mandatory and indefinite detention".
News.com.au
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About 500 refugees remain on Nauru whose indefinite detention by Australia is Nauru's main source income.
Radio NZ
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A system of arbitrary and aparently indefinite detention of asylum seekers who have committed no crime.
The Irish Times
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One hundred of its 166 detainees are now refusing food, in protest at their indefinite detention.
BBC
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We must reject indefinite detention and offshore prisons.
The Guardian
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In effect, people accused of no crime are warehoused in appalling conditions in arbitrary and indefinite detention.
The Guardian
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Shorten was asked whether there were moves within the party to change Labor's position on indefinite detention.
The Guardian
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