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The Bush-driven Patriot Act has seen many people (guilty and otherwise no doubt) detained, tortured and dehumanized.
They even fall asleep when
detained
by the FBI, allowing their kids to escape into the night.
The murder of five policemen there occurred during a demonstration – one of many held across the country – to protest the recent deaths of two black men shot to death by police after they were
detained
for minor infractions.
Dictators in the DockNEW YORK: Britain's law lords will begin to decide this week (after botching the first attempt) whether General Augusto Pinochet should continue to be
detained
for possible extradition to Spain.
Soon after, our office workers were detained, and Hailu Shawel, Chairman of the CUD, and senior CUD official Lidetu Ayalew were put under house arrest.
The fact that Cao was
detained
after the 1989 Beijing Massacre, expelled from the Party, spent time abroad lecturing, and now runs a research consulting firm, seemed no impediment.
Matveyev was
detained
and roughed up by bailiffs who demanded money from him.
Cynics might add that even if Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned, she may yet still be
detained
on political grounds or face other barriers aimed at preventing her from competing in the elections promised in Myanmar for 2010.
When United States Navy boats drifted into Iranian waters this month – a development that, even just a year ago, probably would have triggered a crisis – they were
detained
only briefly.
After first arriving, Hadjiev and his wife were arbitrarily
detained
for several days, leaving their 13-year-old daughter without supervision or access to her parents.
But shaming alone cannot address every breach of basic rights: a juvenile is wrongfully detained, a factory poisons a river.
More than 1,600 protesters across the country were beaten and
detained.
In the second case, the Supreme Court wants Pakistan’s military intelligence agencies to account for hundreds, if not thousands, of missing people who were
detained
as part of the agencies’ campaign to contain the rise of Islamic extremism, or to undermine separatist aspirations in restive Baluchistan.
Our only hope of getting out of this prison is that another country decides to provide safe haven to men like us – men who did nothing wrong and never should have been
detained
here in the first place.
Unlike Arafat and his fellow exiles, Barghouti, the most prominent leader among the Young Guard, grew up under Israeli occupation, and was arrested and
detained
several times.
Upon his return to Nigeria, security officials seized his passport and
detained
him briefly.
In Egypt, danger lurks in the squares, universities, football stadiums, and even bathhouses, with the security services having
detained
anywhere from 22,000 to 41,000 citizens in the last year.
For this, he was
detained
for “inciting subversion of state power,” and in February was sentenced to seven years in jail.
The government arrested Agwa in September 2015 on dubious charges under a counterterrorism law, and he is still
detained
today.
The court, for example, required Musharraf to present alleged terror suspects – some of whome were likely “rendered” to Pakistan by the CIA –
detained
for years without government acknowledgment.
His government has also
detained
an array of public intellectuals who have been critical of its policies, including cyber-dissidents Liu Di and Shi Tao (who was arrested thanks to Yahoo’s collaboration with the police in identifying him) and freelance writers Yu Jie and Liu Xiaobo.
Military doctor Jiang Yanyong was
detained
in 2003 after he publicly rebutted the Party’s assertion that the SARS epidemic had been brought under control.
Even the editor-in-chief of China Youth Daily, the newspaper affiliated with Hu Jintao’s own China Youth League power base, which had been aggressive in exposing official corruption, was recently
detained.
While scores have lost their positions and others have been imprisoned, most are briefly
detained
and then allowed to find other jobs in China’s burgeoning civil society.
Then, in July, just before the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, news broke that Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo – who had been
detained
by the Chinese government for most of the last decade over his calls for democracy – had been diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer.
The men at the barricades were persuaded to leave their stronghold; the insurrectionary leaders were either
detained
or escaped to Spain.
He kidnapped the prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, and
detained
a host of wealthy Saudis in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, releasing them from their forced retreat only after they had parted ways with much of their wealth.
For example, on February 26, at a garment market in Benghazi, Libya, members of a powerful Islamist militia rounded up dozens of Egyptian Coptic Christians – identified by crosses tattooed on their right wrists – whom they then detained, tortured, and threatened with execution.
To the US, China is a big-data dictatorship that has
detained
one million Uighurs in concentration camps, cracked down on Christians, curtailed civil rights, and destroyed the environment – all while building up its military and threatening America’s regional allies.
The “logical conclusion,” according to Dixon, is that Khan “must be
detained
for the rest of his life – regardless of whether he is ever charged with a crime – because if he was ever released, nothing would prevent him from disclosing this information.
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