0 a person who has been officially ordered to stay in a prison or similar place, especially for political reasons -- （尤指因政治原因的）被拘留者，被關押者
a political detainee 政治犯
Another of the detainees was wanted for an assassination attempt on a local employer.
The primary, if not singular, source of dissent was from the healthy detainees.
It cultivated habits of obedience, and taught detainees to cooperate.
Some detainees, determined to stave off the verbal diarrhea against which they had once fought, kept their mouths closed.
Unlike the unfortunate victims of disease, who languished in the stations' isolation hospitals, healthy detainees were often burdened by boredom and frustration.
Many detainees refused to confess because they would not agree to slander other people.
We only have inadequate knowledge of the planned attacks, but we are sure of the detainee's involvement and of the attack's seriousness and imminence.
British officers thought detainees' lurid petitions were exaggerated.
