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Since July, Fair Trials and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have responded to a number of cases in which reporters have been arrested and
detained
on the basis of Interpol information.
Three years later, more than three-quarters of al-Qaeda's key members and associates have been
detained
or killed.
This past May, the Panamanian authorities
detained
a Canada-bound ship carrying phosphates that had been illegally mined by a state-owned Moroccan company in occupied Western Sahara.
On May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, at the border in Texas, announced a new policy of “zero tolerance” for illegal border crossings: anyone suspected of crossing the border illegally would be
detained
and held for trial.
Young children would not be
detained
with them; they would be held separately, which Sessions viewed as a deterrent to other would-be immigrants.
Finally, the threat of political repercussions – the realization that the policy’s bad “optics” could have consequences – drove Trump to back down and issue an executive order requiring that parents and children be
detained
together.
That has meant referring even asylum seekers for prosecution, and, most controversially, taking away their children to be
detained
separately.
Succumbing to political pressure, Trump signed an executive order stating that parents and children would be
detained
together.
On the contrary, since the event, Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker
detained
during the annexation of Crimea, launched a hunger strike in the name of the 64 Ukrainian political prisoners currently held in Russia.
For example, in July 2010, Nico Lange, the head of the Ukrainian office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, was
detained
at the Kyiv airport after publishing a critical report on the process of Ukrainian regional elections (the incident was subsequently presented as a “misunderstanding”).
Before that, the writers Ran Yunfei, Teng Biao, Ye Du, Zhu Yufu, Tang Jingling, Gu Chuan, Li Hai, Ding Mao, Chen Wei, Jiang Tianyong, and Liu Zhengqing were separately
detained
or sentenced to jail.
Other young Beijing artists have been
detained
as well.
The latest to surface is the case of 30-year-old Muzaffar Tuychiyev, a healthy young man when the police
detained
him on the evening of March 24, 2008, in the region of Tashkent.
Rasul Haitov was 27 years old when he was
detained
in Tashkent with his brother Ravshan, 32, in October 2001.
As of now, one minister, two provincial vice governors, one vice minister, and several senior executives in state-owned oil companies have been
detained.
No sooner had Kim returned to the spotlight, sporting a limp and a cane, than the regime sparked a fresh round of speculation by releasing Jeffrey Fowle, a 56-year-old American who had been
detained
for months for leaving a Bible in a hotel room.
Since the current crisis began in February, more than 40 people have died, roughly 650 have been injured, and some 2,000 have been
detained.
Three air force generals have been detained, national and foreign news media are being censored, and officials have even cut off supplies of newsprint to all but the government’s supporters.
Pakistan’s Black RevolutionSHANGHAI -- Immediately after taking office last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered the release of the 60 judges who had been
detained
by President Pervez Musharraf since November.
In August, his administration announced that it would double tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Turkey, in order to pressure the Turkish authorities to release an American pastor
detained
for two years on espionage charges.
The implication that an Indian diplomat in a wage dispute with her maid is guilty of human trafficking understandably riles Indian diplomats as much as the treatment of Khobragade after she was
detained.
Last month’s unceremonious killing of a billionaire businessman
detained
by security forces on corruption charges seemed to reflect the tacit division of power between the president and Iran’s security apparatus.
It was often these denounced men who were
detained
– and tortured – for years.
Hospitals are overflowing, and many people are avoiding state clinics, because they are afraid of being
detained
– or worse.
In an early show of defiance, North Korea seized three Chinese fishing boats,
detained
a reported 29 people on board for 13 days (during which they were allegedly abused), and then demanded $190,000 in compensation for illegal fishing in North Korean waters.
Small wonder, then, that the artist Ai Weiwei could be
detained
in secret, Liu Xiaobo could be sentenced to 11 years in prison for starting a petition, and Li Wangya could “commit suicide” while in custody.
In the end, however, it was the protesting parents and teachers of the dead children who were
detained
and harassed by the state.
Chinese citizens’ references to the constitution (especially article 35, which guarantees freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association) and constitutionalism in general are routinely censored, and lawyers who cite the constitution in court are frequently
detained.
Of the 100,000 people who have been detained, more than 50,000 have been formally arrested.
Navalny himself broke house arrest to join his supporters, but was swiftly
detained
– along with more than 100 of the protesters.
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