mass arrests
Large-scale police detentions
Mass arrests are the detention of large numbers of people at once, typically by police or military forces during protests, riots, or political crackdowns.
The term often carries implications of indiscriminate action—sweeping up bystanders along with actual participants: Mass arrests followed the demonstration.
Governments use mass arrests to suppress dissent or restore order; critics see them as violations of civil liberties.
- roundupOrganized gathering of scattered things
- crackdownSudden strict enforcement
- detentionTemporary official holding
- sweepBrush clean with broom
- protestersThose publicly opposing something
dissidents · riot police · tear gas · handcuffs · paddy wagon · prison bus · dragnet · political prisoners · martial law · state of emergency · curfew · human rights · resistance · uprising · jailhouse · booking · interrogation · show trial
- policingpatrol, police powers, police officer, badges, police car
- Occupy MovementWall Street, ninety-nine percent, human microphone, general assembly, mic check
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- repressionsecret police, torture, disappearances, detention camps, crackdown
- crowd controlriot gear, riot shields, rubber bullets, pepper balls, water cannon
- Intifadastone throwing, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Israeli occupation, PLO
mass arrestsgeneral amnesty
Sweeping official forgiveness
blanket pardon · blanket amnesty · prisoner release · emancipation · decarceration
mass arrestsdue process
Guaranteed judicial fairness
habeas corpus · constitutional protections · judicial review
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