detention pending trial; pretrial detention
Legal term for holding a suspect in custody while awaiting trial. Used in formal and legal contexts.
If the period of detention pending trial is too long, it becomes a human rights issue.
The court must explain the reasons for pretrial detention in detail.
勾留 is a broader term for detention, including both pretrial and other forms of custody. 未決拘留 specifically refers to detention before a verdict.
未決勾留 is a synonym often used interchangeably with 未決拘留 in legal contexts.
Compound of 未決 (pending decision) and 拘留 (detention). The term is a direct legal borrowing from the concept of pretrial detention.