Synonyms for detainees
de·tainees

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1. List of paraphrases for "detainees":

   prisoners, inmates, detained, arrested, detainee, held, inmate, convicts, prisoner, detention, custody, captives, arrestees, détenus, internees

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1. Alka Pradhan:

   They are still in freezing cells, they still have problems with food, and they are still being treated roughly or hit by the guards, recently, this past summer,( the detainees) had incredibly invasive genital searches.

2. Sarmad Al-Jilane:

   I was allowed to go to the bathroom only two times a day, each of 10 seconds. After the 10 seconds end, they started to hit me, the guards would force detainees to stand in a room for as long as 30 hours while throwing water at them, electrifying them, and hitting them with sharp objects, all of this without any investigation.

3. Ben Lomai:

   Papua New Guinea has relaxed restrictions on the detainees a little bit. They can now go into town and move about the camp freely.

4. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham:

   We made accommodations to the detainees at Gitmo -- I've been to Gitmo, and I've seen the accommodations that we made to the Muslim detainees who killed Americans, you're telling me that you cannot make an accommodation for an elected Democrat county clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky?

5. Bill Roggio:

   If the base falls and the prison is overrun, these detainees can bolster the ranks of these terror groups.