Word: detainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emergency regulations imposed to quell racial unrest have allowed police to ban all outdoor rallies; anti-government meetings in churches, universities or private homes; speeches they consider subversive; and news coverage of protests and police action. They also permit police to detain anyone without charge...
Alfonsin responded by declaring a 30-day state of siege, which entitles police to detain suspected looters without charging them. The President, following the lead of provincial leaders, also ordered the creation of hundreds of soup kitchens and the free distribution of food. Some measure of order was restored after four days, but many citizens were calling for Alfonsin, whose Radical Civic Union party was convincingly defeated by Peronist Carlos Saul Menem in May 14 elections, to step down before his term ends on Dec. 10. When the two men met last week, however, they apparently agreed that an early...
...outcry followed when she failed to appear for a court date last week, prompting Flynn to announce a new policy allowing police to indefinitely detain prostitutes and drug users who, through illegal activities, could spread AIDS...
...Supreme Court panel struck a body blow at the country's ten-week-old state of emergency. On Monday it ruled that two key provisions of the emergency regulations concerning arrests and detentions were invalid. The court held that Botha had overstepped his bounds by empowering security forces to detain without charge anyone considered to be a threat to public order. The suit had been brought on behalf of Solomon Tsenoli, a black detainee who was arrested June 12. After Tsenoli was released, there was a rush of activity in all four provinces as lawyers began to prepare similar challenges...
...hijacking's aftermath severely strained U.S.-Italian relations and caused the government to fall briefly when Italian authorities refused to detain Abbas after a U.S. warplane forced an Egyptian jet carrying him and the hijackers to land in Sicily...