• A mass arrest occurs when police apprehend large numbers of suspects at once. This sometimes occurs at protests. Some mass arrests are also used in an...
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  • October 7, 2023, Israel has carried out mass arrests and detentions of Palestinians. Thousands have been arrested in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories...
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    Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary that Adolf Hitler himself had ordered the arrest of 25,000 to 30,000 Jews. On the evening of 9 November 1938, Heinrich Müller...
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    The 2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge was the mass arrest of a number of prominent Saudi Arabian princes, government ministers, and business people in Saudi...
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    arrest Law enforcement agency Mass arrest Nightwalker statute Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Police raid Pre-trial detention Resisting arrest Surety...
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    Cardiac arrest, also known as sudden cardiac arrest, is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. As a result, blood cannot properly circulate...
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    the ongoing sixth mass extinction. A number of activists in the movement accept arrest and imprisonment, similar to the mass arrest tactics of the Committee...
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  • Contempt of cop False arrest False imprisonment Forced disappearance Habeas corpus Kettling Kidnapping Mass arrest Preemptive arrest Preventive detention...
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    Margot, were arrested, which was described as a "mass arrest", and held in at least four police stations in Warsaw. Among those arrested were LGBT activist...
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  • ended on May 5. In all, more than 12,000 people were arrested, in what was the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. Members of the Nixon administration...
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  • Administrative detention Arbitrary arrest and detention Mass arrest Pre-crime Preventive detention "Mass arrests have no place in a democratic country"...
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    Retrieved May 18, 2010. McCartney, Robert (January 7, 2010). "D.C. mass arrest settlement offers needed reminder of rights". The Washington Post. Archived...
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  • reaction to decades of persecution by the government and perceived the mass arrests that followed as an abuse of state powers, a view that has been reflected...
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    Cheung issued a statement in the evening of 6 January, describing the mass arrest as another proof that the one country, two systems principle was lost...
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    messaging service and the social network VK, was arrested after landing at Le Bourget Airport. The arrest was part of a preliminary investigation by the...
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    Nikolai Yezhov (category Executed mass murderers)
    Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell from Stalin's favour and was arrested, subsequently admitting...
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    the Great Purge in 1936–1938, on Stalin's orders, the NKVD conducted mass arrests, imprisonment, torture, and executions of hundreds of thousands of Soviet...
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    Human Rights Council: Listed the names of detainees and condemned the mass arrests of media groups and public defenders. Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders...
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    Vel' d'Hiv', an abbreviation of la rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver) was a mass arrest of Jewish families by French police and gendarmes at the behest of the...
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  • security officials arrested Sabih at her home in Tulkarm in the West Bank. Her arrest was announced on 10 October as part of the mass arrest of 117 Hamas activists...
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    Northern Ireland on 9–10 August 1971, during the Troubles. It involved the mass arrest and internment (imprisonment without trial) of people suspected of being...
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    operation has been hailed as one of the largest and most successful mass arrests of fugitives by U.S. law enforcement. From 1981 to 1986, the U.S. Marshals...
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  • activists published The Peking University Students on the "7-27 Worker Arrest in Shenzhen": the Letter of Solidarity, roughly thirty students and alumni...
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    Police Department (NYPD) to enter the campus on April 18 and conduct mass arrests. A new encampment was built the next day. The administration then entered...
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    The Short Creek raid was the "largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history". Law enforcement arrested polygamist men and removed children from...
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  • the mass arrest and internment of people ostensibly suspected of involvement with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Out of those arrested, fourteen...
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  • were injured, and 537 travellers were eventually arrested. This represents one of the largest mass arrests of civilians since at least the Second World War...
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    and Tufts University—began occupying campuses, as well as experiencing mass arrests in New York and at Yale. Protests emerged throughout the U.S. in the...
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    In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person...
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    in Germany. The Reichstag fire in February 1933 was the pretext for mass arrests. The Reichstag Fire Decree eliminated the right to personal freedom enshrined...
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