detainee
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“We know everything about you, do not worry,” the detainee recalled one of the men saying, according to court filings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
He has also defended his decision to wear an army uniform at a recent event in Cúcuta at which he confronted a detainee suspected of being a Farc rebel.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Moscow has in exchange freed a US detainee -- and now apparently given Trump's wife a gift.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security has been running an online detainee locator since 2010 where anyone can look up a person being held in immigration detention.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
The detainee who is wise enough to realize this will never find any cause for complaint, but only all conceivable help, to erase the memory of what he had been accused of.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
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