"unarrest" meaning in English

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          "text": "She was swearing at the police who were trying to deal with a domestic incident. I had to break up the situation, the harassment was interfering with them dealing with the original fight. It was decided to unarrest her when we realised her age.",
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          "text": "They were subsequently unarrested and released into their parents’ custody on Friday evening.",
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        "To release (an arrested person) from custody."
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        "(transitive) To release (an arrested person) from custody."
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          "ref": "1994, Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 3, page 223:",
          "text": "However, it has been suggested to the Committee that police will not utilise this power because there will be a fear of the \"unarrest\" being used as evidence of a wrongful arrest.",
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          "ref": "2017, Matthew Knouff, An Outsider's Guide to Antifa, page 156:",
          "text": "Several unarrests, and only two total successful arrests, occurred at the Navy Memorial.",
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          "text": "These long stops essentially consist of a form of illegal, undocumented arrest, an investigation, and an “unarrest”—a wholly unconstitutional process.",
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