detainee
noun
de·tain·ee
di-ˌtā-ˈnē 
ˌdē-
: a person held in custody especially for political reasons
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Travis could not immediately reveal which detainee escaped when, only that two fled on Saturday and two fled on Sunday.
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Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 27 May 2024
Many went to the crowded bus station in Kandahar City to scan the prisoners returning from Bagram Air Base, where the Americans, and later the Afghans, had kept thousands of detainees.
—Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
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Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 27 May 2024
Many went to the crowded bus station in Kandahar City to scan the prisoners returning from Bagram Air Base, where the Americans, and later the Afghans, had kept thousands of detainees.
—Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
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detainee
noun
de·tain·ee
di-ˌtā-ˈnē
: a person who is detained
especially
: a person held in custody prior to trial or hearing
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