Internment

The word internment is generally used to refer to the imprisonment or confinement of people, generally in prison camps or prisons, without due process of law and a trial. It also refers to the practice of neutral countries in time of war to hold belligerent armed forces and equipment which enter their territory, under the Second Hague Convention.

See also

• Concentration camp
• Defence Regulation 18B
• Enemy alien
• Habeas corpus
• House arrest