English-Danish translations for detain

tilbageholdeDe er ikke terrorister, og det er forkert at tilbageholde dem. They are not terrorists and it is wrong to detain them. Næsten 2.000 politiske fanger tilbageholdes der. Almost 2 000 political prisoners are being detained there. Det er unavngivne civile, der tilbageholdes af russerne. These were unarmed civilians who were detained by the Russians.

To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention
To keep back or from; to withhold
To seize goods for official purposes

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