arrested
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Police said the group were arrested at South Africa's biggest airport, OR Tambo, and a hotel in Bruma, east of Johannesburg by a multidisciplinary team that involved Interpol.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
A third man was arrested and issued with a recorded police warning.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
“There’s a personal incentive in intervention work to make amends for bad things you’ve done, give back, but there’s also the desire to not ever get arrested or go to jail or prison again.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Dutch news agency ANP reported that police arrested between 150 and 200 protesters.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
She’d thought that keeping secrets would just feel like obeying her father—protecting him, maybe, because what if the police arrested fathers who told their daughters to act like robots pretending to be kids?
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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