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Thousands will be sacked from their positions in the military and elsewhere, detained, and prosecuted with little regard for the rule of law or the presumption of innocence.
Many business leaders have gone missing temporarily, presumably
detained
by anti-corruption investigators.
Guo was
detained
last December to “assist a judicial investigation,” and then simply appeared at his company’s annual meeting a few days later, with no explanation offered.
The next month, a Swedish NGO worker also was expelled, after being
detained
and accused of “endangering state security.”
After Golunov’s release, police
detained
more than 500 demonstrators who remained in the streets of central Moscow, protesting Russia’s broader suppression of independent media and detention of political prisoners.
When the first clinical evidence of a deadly new virus emerged in Wuhan, Chinese authorities failed to warn the public for weeks and harassed, reprimanded, and
detained
those who did.
Today, women can be imprisoned for having miscarriages (as in El Salvador) and
detained
for nonpayment of hospital bills after childbirth (as in Kenya).
The Silence of the Republican LambsNEW YORK – In the 1960s, the dissident poet Alexander Galich wrote about the mute complicity of Soviet apparatchiks in Joseph Stalin’s crimes, notably the Great Purges in which millions were
detained
or died in the Gulag.
The state has
detained
dozens of them.
In addition, the number of journalists who were arbitrarily
detained
rose to 389 last year.
For our part at the CPJ, our board sent a rare letter to local lawmakers indicating our intention “to pursue justice for journalists who were attacked or unjustly detained.”
Local access streets had been closed, and a large crowd of demonstrators was
detained
for about an hour; some were arrested.
Journalists have also been
detained
by security services and targeted by associated militias.
From Egypt to Turkey to Cameroon, journalists have been harassed, intimidated, fined, and
detained
over dubious claims that they were spreading fake news.
The Chinese government has reportedly
detained
more than a million Muslims, mostly Uighurs, in so-called reeducation camps – the largest mass incarceration on religious grounds since World War II.
But the fate Carlos turned out to have met was more surreal than that, and in a way, even more harrowing: deep in international waters, thousands of miles from the United States, he was
detained
by the US Coast Guard.
Detained
men are shackled, underfed, and forced to defecate in buckets.
China would also veto any resolution referring to the ICC its so-called re-education camps, where roughly a million Uighurs – an ethnic and religious minority that the authorities view as a security threat – are currently
detained.
In early July, the authorities
detained
two activists – including Andrei Pivovarov, the executive director of exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia pro-democracy movement – who were campaigning against Putin’s plans to prolong his rule.
Then, in March, police
detained
another 100 protesters, spurring the ACJD to suspend talks.
(His recent visit to Tehran – where he reportedly asked Iran’s leaders, at Trump’s request, to release
detained
Americans – made clear that, even squeezed by sanctions, Iran has no interest in negotiating with a serial violator of signed agreements.)
Like some of the others who have now been indicted, he was
detained
briefly and interrogated last November, then released, but subject to a travel ban that prevented him from leaving the country.
It would also honor the more than 100 journalists
detained
today in life-threatening conditions, including RSF award-winner Huang Qi and the photographer Lu Guang, who received numerous prizes for his work on social and environmental issues in China.
Soon thereafter, Reuters reported that some 1,300 people had been detained; other independent media sources indicate that several people are in critical condition, and that at least one died after being deliberately run over by a police truck.
When hundreds of people took to the streets of two major cities to protest the vote, about 500 were
detained.
More than 4,000 people have been
detained
in all the protests during and since the election, according to Erlan Turgumbayev, the minister of internal affairs.
Moreover, from Syria to Slovakia, journalists are being harassed, held hostage, unlawfully detained, and even killed for doing their jobs.
Today, Venezuela is a full-fledged dictatorship, where the government’s political opponents are
detained
and protesters face brutal repression.
He has been
detained
without trial for longer than the 18-month maximum dictated by Cambodian law.
Those who are slower to meet this expectation may find themselves under surveillance and even sent to so-called re-education camps, like those in Xinjiang, where hundreds of thousands (or more) Muslim Uighurs are now
detained.
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