internment


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Synonyms for internment

confinement during wartime

the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

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According to the information supplied to the Government of India, the result of the Enemy Foreigners Order was the initial arrest and internment of some 200 to 250 Italians.
The Internment Chronicles is due be published in Spring next year and the first book in the series will be titled Perfect Ruin.
The counsel replied that he had moved an amended petition for substitution of seven prisoners as petitioners in the main case, who had been held in the internment centers.
Officials at the Home and Tribal Affairs Department said that 194 suspected militants had been taken to an internment centre in Lakki and another 321 people, arrested from different areas, were currently being de-radicalised at an internment centre in Malakand.
In a ceremony at the White House, Obama said that Hirabayashi, as a student at the University of Washington, was "one of only three Japanese Americans to defy the executive order that forced thousands of families to leave their homes, their jobs, and their civil rights behind and move to internment camps during World War II."
When discussing life in the internment camps, the authors show both the horrific conditions the Japanese-Americans lived in but also the way in which they resisted their conditions.
Importantly, Robinson sets the context of the entire internment period by looking at a history of Japanese racism that existed in North America before 7 December 1941.
TODD STEWART'S color photographs in Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment bear witness to this dark chapter of American wartime history.
More than sixty years later, the internment remains a largely invisible event in popular history about that war.
PESHAWAR -- A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday sought comments from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, federal law secretary and other respondents within 14 days in response to a writ petition, challenging the recent legislation meant to protect the laws, which were enforced in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas, including one governing the internment centres.
Speaking by phone from her home in Chicago, bestselling author Samira Ahmed says she channeled her fears and concerns about today's political climate into her highly anticipated new novel, Internment, which she imagines as being set "15 seconds in the future."
Turkey called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uighur people are a "great shame for humanity".
The Stories Were Not Told: Canada's First World War Internment Camps