Synonyms for house arrest
house ar·rest

Princeton's WordNet

1. house arrestnoun

   confinement to your own home

Matched Categories

1. • Confinement

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1. house arrest

   Read the full text of the House Arrest poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Mohammad Taghi:

   Lifting the house arrest might increase the capabilities of the reformists and other groups and strengthen their hand in the elections, they don’t want to create a situation where the hardliners will have a greater loss.

2. Attorney General Bill Barr:

   You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.

3. Faraz Sanei:

   The political risks are great. The hardliners still control parliament. They control the security and intelligence forces. They control the apparatus which has been instrumental in keeping these individuals under house arrest.

4. Abdullah Noman:

   The problem isn't in selecting a new president ... but it's tied to the militias' control of the capital and on decision-making, so any new president will be at the mercy of these militias who are still holding Hadi, the prime minister and a number of officials under house arrest.

5. Kampala Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire:

   The military is not allowing people to go in. They are just reading whatever results that they want. This election was just rigged in such a blatant way, it is a sign of intimidation of the regime, but also they are very scared of the people. They lost this election in a very bad way. Bobi Wine is such a uniting factor, so they fear that the people might rise up, so that is why they are keeping him under a kind of house arrest. Bobi Wine is illegal and unconstitutional.