English-Danish translations for imprisonment

• fangenskab
  Deres fangenskab er en tikkende bombe under freden. Their imprisonment is a constant threat to the peace process.
  Turkmenistan er blevet et land med tortur og fængslinger, død i fangenskab og intolerance over for politiske og religiøse opfattelser. Turkmenistan has become a land of torture and imprisonment, of death in custody, of intolerance towards political and religious views.
  I 2004 blev hun løsladt efter ti års fangenskab, men forrige fredag, den 5. december, blev hun på ny idømt ti års fængsel. In 2004, she was released after ten years' imprisonment, but last Friday, 5 December, she was once again sentenced to ten years in prison.

Definition of imprisonment

• A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime

Related words

• compensation for false imprisonment
• compensation for wrongful imprisonment
• false imprisonment