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They told me that the reason they took me off the bus was because I didn't show them my passport, which I believe that they saw that I was the only American amongst all these Turkish citizens, and they decided that they thought I was a spy, so they pulled me aside, made up something and then detained me for 10 days. – Tyler Jacob	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sports fans can play a huge role because they're not a constituency that I think the [ American ] government is hearing from, you want to see Brittney Griner come home ? Or Trevor Reed or Paul Whelan or any of the other 50 hostages ? I would suggest calling the White House every day and telling Trevor Reed or Paul Whelan you want President Biden to prioritize the repatriation of wrongfully detained American citizens. – Jonathan Franks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They should just know that State Department, the State Department, folks like Colin Allred in Congress on the Foreign Affairs Committee, we're gon na do everything we can to get Brittney Griner home, to get any other American who's been detained unjustly home. – Colin Allred	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There’s only so much I can say given the privacy considerations at this point. Whenever an American is detained anywhere in the world, we of course stand ready to provide every possible assistance, and that includes in Russia, we have an embassy team that’s working on the cases of other Americans who are detained in Russia. We’re doing everything we can to see to it that their rights are upheld and respected. – Antony Blinken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Biden is putting millions of Americans at risk by allowing known criminals and potential terrorists to fly on U.S. airlines, a criminal alien shouldn’t be allowed to board a plane after presenting a warrant for their arrest. They should be detained and brought before a judge. – Lance Gooden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is a fight not just for us, this a fight for our father and a fight for every American who is illegally detained, and for every person who is illegally detained. – Guila Fakhoury	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Hi, Kayla Sullivan reporting live from outside my son’s bedroom, where he’s currently being detained until nap time is over, now this story does involve a minor, so I can’t release specifics, but what I can confirm is my son is a 2-year-old ‘terrorist’ who held me hostage at the Olive Garden. – Kayla Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Non-citizens who do not hold a valid visa on entry or who have had their visa cancelled will be detained and removed from Australia. – Border Force	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today's decision is wonderful news for Abdul Malik, who has been unjustly detained for 15 years without charge or trial, abdul Malik longs to be reunited with Abdul Malik family, and we hope the President Joe Biden administration will ensure President Joe Biden release happens quickly. – Mark Maher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
An unfortunate component about advocating for someone who is wrongfully detained is you have to make your presence known. There's always a crisis going on, and you have to keep reminding people that there is an American who is being held by a hostile foreign nation, often one that we have relations with of some sort, and that this situation has to end. – Elizabeth Whelan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This was a decision made exclusively to protect both the people who work and are detained inside the jail, as well as to protect the community that jail employees return to after every shift. We would be pleased if this policy mitigates the impact of losing jail employees on Jan. 1, but that’s not why County Attorney Conover made this decision. – Joe Watson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What's taught to police recruits is,' Detain both, ascertain the facts, proceed,' in my experience, you would see both the citizen making the arrest and the person arrested both detained and the citizen would be compelled to give a statement with regard to what he or she saw. – Thomas Aveni	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents. – Juan Pappier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The GEO Group's important on a number of grounds. The GEO Group's the first case in the country where a judge or jury has found that detained immigrants working at privately owned facilities are entitled to be paid minimum wage or a fair wage for their labor in keeping the facilities running. – Adam Berger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The U.S. military’s presence also allows the United States to maintain its influence in both eastern Syria and Iraq and deter Iran, said retired Army Gen. Joseph Votel, who led U.S. Central Command from March 2016 until March 2019. “Moreover, it keeps us engaged on the topic of ISIS, and other VEOs [violent extremist organizations], and especially detained fighters – whose disposition is still not finally determined,” Votel said. “Finally, I think our presence is about showing support for a partner that was very valuable to us.” – Joe Votel	added by MoWali 2 years ago
Let me say, our eyes are wide open. We have been saying that for some time. There was no path to a relationship with China as long as the two Michaels were being detained. – Marc Garneau	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The stress position is outrageous, i have seen reports of children being beaten, reports of children, of iron rods burning their legs, I've seen them detained for several days... I'm speechless and outraged and truly angry at what despicable behavior we're seeing. – Tom Andrews	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It ended in Frankfort city with a vehicle crash, the suspect wasn't injured in the crash and has been taken into custody and is being detained at this time at the Clinton County Sheriff's Office. – Sheriff Richard Kelly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The suspect wasn't injured in the crash and has been taken into custody and is being detained at this time at the Clinton County Sheriff's Office. – Sheriff Richard Kelly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is no doubt that the UAE has detained people on behalf of foreign governments with whom they are allied, i don’t think they would at all shrug their shoulders to a request from such a powerful ally. – Radha Stirling	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You can't racial profile someone you can't see. Second, no person was ever stopped, detained, questioned or otherwise contacted. There was no victim. – Rexford Hagg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Chinese government has detained more than one million people in as many as 1200 state-run internment camps throughout Xinjiang, many detainees are subjected to physical violence, sexual abuse, and torture to induce them to work producing apparel, electronics, solar equipment, agricultural products. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I raised the case of two wrongfully imprisoned American citizens, Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, the families of the detained Americans came up and we discussed them. We're going to follow through with that discussion. I am not going to walk away on that. – President Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Biden -- after 30 months of being wrongfully detained by the Russian government, I implore you to bring this appalling case of hostage diplomacy to an end. – Paul Whelan	Found on CNN 2 years ago

They told me that the reason they took me off the bus was because I didn't show them my passport, which I believe that they saw that I was the only American amongst all these Turkish citizens, and they decided that they thought I was a spy, so they pulled me aside, made up something and then detained me for 10 days.

– Tyler Jacob

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sports fans can play a huge role because they're not a constituency that I think the [ American ] government is hearing from, you want to see Brittney Griner come home ? Or Trevor Reed or Paul Whelan or any of the other 50 hostages ? I would suggest calling the White House every day and telling Trevor Reed or Paul Whelan you want President Biden to prioritize the repatriation of wrongfully detained American citizens.

– Jonathan Franks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They should just know that State Department, the State Department, folks like Colin Allred in Congress on the Foreign Affairs Committee, we're gon na do everything we can to get Brittney Griner home, to get any other American who's been detained unjustly home.

– Colin Allred

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s only so much I can say given the privacy considerations at this point. Whenever an American is detained anywhere in the world, we of course stand ready to provide every possible assistance, and that includes in Russia, we have an embassy team that’s working on the cases of other Americans who are detained in Russia. We’re doing everything we can to see to it that their rights are upheld and respected.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Biden is putting millions of Americans at risk by allowing known criminals and potential terrorists to fly on U.S. airlines, a criminal alien shouldn’t be allowed to board a plane after presenting a warrant for their arrest. They should be detained and brought before a judge.

– Lance Gooden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a fight not just for us, this a fight for our father and a fight for every American who is illegally detained, and for every person who is illegally detained.

– Guila Fakhoury

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Hi, Kayla Sullivan reporting live from outside my son’s bedroom, where he’s currently being detained until nap time is over, now this story does involve a minor, so I can’t release specifics, but what I can confirm is my son is a 2-year-old ‘terrorist’ who held me hostage at the Olive Garden.

– Kayla Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Non-citizens who do not hold a valid visa on entry or who have had their visa cancelled will be detained and removed from Australia.

– Border Force

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today's decision is wonderful news for Abdul Malik, who has been unjustly detained for 15 years without charge or trial, abdul Malik longs to be reunited with Abdul Malik family, and we hope the President Joe Biden administration will ensure President Joe Biden release happens quickly.

– Mark Maher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An unfortunate component about advocating for someone who is wrongfully detained is you have to make your presence known. There's always a crisis going on, and you have to keep reminding people that there is an American who is being held by a hostile foreign nation, often one that we have relations with of some sort, and that this situation has to end.

– Elizabeth Whelan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This was a decision made exclusively to protect both the people who work and are detained inside the jail, as well as to protect the community that jail employees return to after every shift. We would be pleased if this policy mitigates the impact of losing jail employees on Jan. 1, but that’s not why County Attorney Conover made this decision.

– Joe Watson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's taught to police recruits is,' Detain both, ascertain the facts, proceed,' in my experience, you would see both the citizen making the arrest and the person arrested both detained and the citizen would be compelled to give a statement with regard to what he or she saw.

– Thomas Aveni

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents.

– Juan Pappier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The GEO Group's important on a number of grounds. The GEO Group's the first case in the country where a judge or jury has found that detained immigrants working at privately owned facilities are entitled to be paid minimum wage or a fair wage for their labor in keeping the facilities running.

– Adam Berger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The U.S. military’s presence also allows the United States to maintain its influence in both eastern Syria and Iraq and deter Iran, said retired Army Gen. Joseph Votel, who led U.S. Central Command from March 2016 until March 2019. “Moreover, it keeps us engaged on the topic of ISIS, and other VEOs [violent extremist organizations], and especially detained fighters – whose disposition is still not finally determined,” Votel said. “Finally, I think our presence is about showing support for a partner that was very valuable to us.”

– Joe Votel

added by MoWali
2 years ago

Let me say, our eyes are wide open. We have been saying that for some time. There was no path to a relationship with China as long as the two Michaels were being detained.

– Marc Garneau

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The stress position is outrageous, i have seen reports of children being beaten, reports of children, of iron rods burning their legs, I've seen them detained for several days... I'm speechless and outraged and truly angry at what despicable behavior we're seeing.

– Tom Andrews

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It ended in Frankfort city with a vehicle crash, the suspect wasn't injured in the crash and has been taken into custody and is being detained at this time at the Clinton County Sheriff's Office.

– Sheriff Richard Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The suspect wasn't injured in the crash and has been taken into custody and is being detained at this time at the Clinton County Sheriff's Office.

– Sheriff Richard Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no doubt that the UAE has detained people on behalf of foreign governments with whom they are allied, i don’t think they would at all shrug their shoulders to a request from such a powerful ally.

– Radha Stirling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can't racial profile someone you can't see. Second, no person was ever stopped, detained, questioned or otherwise contacted. There was no victim.

– Rexford Hagg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Chinese government has detained more than one million people in as many as 1200 state-run internment camps throughout Xinjiang, many detainees are subjected to physical violence, sexual abuse, and torture to induce them to work producing apparel, electronics, solar equipment, agricultural products.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I raised the case of two wrongfully imprisoned American citizens, Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, the families of the detained Americans came up and we discussed them. We're going to follow through with that discussion. I am not going to walk away on that.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Biden -- after 30 months of being wrongfully detained by the Russian government, I implore you to bring this appalling case of hostage diplomacy to an end.

– Paul Whelan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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