Administrative detention
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Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons. A large number of countries, both democratic and undemocratic, resort to administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism, to control illegal immigration, or to protect the ruling regime.
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See also
- Forced disappearance
- Indefinite imprisonment
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- Preventive detention
- Precrime
- Preemptive arrest
- Civil commitment
- Civil confinement
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