Detained
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In both countries, demonstrations have been banned; places of worship have been closed; and hundreds of people have been
detained
and interrogated for having voiced an unconventional opinion.
But when he was subsequently
detained
in a psychiatric hospital, the Russian government refused to allow the lawyer access to his client.
Moreover, the US Constitution prohibits preventive detention: even severely disturbed individuals cannot be
detained
involuntarily unless judged an imminent threat to themselves or others.
Moreover, Anwar’s daughter has now been
detained
for questioning the integrity of her father’s trial in a speech in the Malay parliament, in which she is an elected member in her own right.
Today, modern authoritarians are reviving such behavior, suddenly and covertly snatching people, including well-known figures and high-ranking officials, to be
detained
or worse.
In many cases, the “vanished” do eventually resurface, but with an apparently transformed perspective on their past work or the government that
detained
them.
Eventually, it was announced that Meng had been
detained
and was being investigated for bribery.
To call China a colonial power is to diminish the true horrors that were faced by the colonized communities, including by my own relatives, who were
detained
by the British colonial authorities.
On Saturday, two senior journalists were
detained
for issuing statements critical of the crackdowns.
Like Mamal, they, too, have been detained, and the government appears determined to prosecute them.
Only four of the 153 suspects
detained
were German nationals.
Earlier this year, Trump approved a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy that would not only prosecute all adults – even asylum-seekers – illegally crossing the border, but also take their children away to be
detained
separately (although he has since issued an executive order to reverse the separation of families).
Britain’s Retreat from Free SpeechNEW YORK – The ordeal of David Miranda – the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald
detained
at London’s Heathrow Airport, interrogated for nine hours, and forced to surrender his electronic devices (some of which allegedly contained documents leaked to Greenwald by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden)– is a shocking demonstration of the changed climate surrounding the press.
Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police
detained
them and that the couple would be released after the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of fifteen years ago passed.
This was not, of course, the first time someone had been
detained
without explanation in China, so it was not a good omen.
Now it has come to light that he and his henchmen illegally detained, tortured, and imprisoned many innocent businessmen during this campaign, simultaneously stealing their assets.
As a result, the United States government’s “war on terror” has come home: any American may now be
detained
indefinitely, without charge or trial, anywhere, at any time, forever.
He describes being
detained
by US officials while reporting overseas, and being advised that he is on a watch list.
Third, the drug lords should be arrested and
detained.
It all began a year ago, when Ulyukaev was
detained
at Rosneft’s Moscow headquarters, where he was allegedly attempting to secure a $2 million bribe from Sechin, in exchange for his support for Rosneft’s planned acquisition of a majority of state shares in Bashneft, a regional oil company.
Aside from a humanitarian crisis, with thousands drowning each year trying to reach Europe and thousands more detained, there is the soaring expense of border controls and bureaucracy, a criminalized people-smuggling industry, and an expanding shadow economy, where illegal migrants are vulnerable to exploitation, labor laws are broken and taxes go unpaid.
Last year, Biti was
detained
and beaten along with Tsvangirai and dozens of other MDC officials.
Judges have temporarily blocked some aspects of the executive order – for example, those
detained
on arrival in the US under the order may not be deported; but it will be some time before the courts resolve all the questions the new prohibitions raise.
When potential refugees are blocked by offshore barriers,
detained
for excessive periods in unsatisfactory conditions, or refused entry because of restrictive legal interpretations, the protection of international law is lost.
More than 20 have been
detained
without trial.
In September, Turkish authorities arrested and deported Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink – the third foreign journalist to be
detained
on terrorism-related charges and expelled from the country this year.
Several hundred dissidents have been
detained
at military barracks for up to a week at a time.
And they have likely become even more frightened following the arrest of Zhou Yongkang, the longtime head of China’s security services and the highest-ranking member of the Politburo yet
detained.
And Bachelet’s then-partner, a leader of the country’s Socialist Party, was
detained
and disappeared during the dictatorship.
In Egypt, Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein has been
detained
for two years without trial.
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