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Prior to his detention, Biti had responded to such allegations by stating that his only crime was to fight for democracy in Zimbabwe.
It is unlikely that he will be able to challenge the basis of his detention in an independent court.
It is time for the international community to step in, call for an end to the detention and disappearance of MDC officials and perceived supporters, and push for a democratic transition in Zimbabwe.
One is to intimidate journalists, say, by accusing a high-profile reporter of “treason” or endangering national security through his reporting, and then threatening him with torture, a show trial, or indefinite detention.
Some 60,000 refugees who sought to register have been put into detention facilities where conditions are inhumane.
Individuals can still be held in unacknowledged detention for up to 18 months.
The writ of habeas corpus is one of the first and oldest protections in Western legal systems, requiring jailers – those who “have the body” – to provide a reason for the prisoner’s detention.
It even insisted that it could imprison an American citizen, José Padilla, incommunicado for an indefinite period without criminal charges until, faced with the prospect of Supreme Court review, it suddenly pressed charges that had nothing to do with the allegations that had formed the basis for his detention.
In its suit, Al Jazeera alleges that its offices were closed, its transmissions and broadcasts were jammed, its license canceled, its local branch liquidated in a compulsory procedure, and its journalists subjected to harassment, arrest, and detention for political reasons.
The Japanese authorities clearly learned a lesson from their detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain two years ago, when they eventually acceded to Chinese pressure – which included a range of harsh, and escalating, political and economic measures– to release him.
The last time a Nobel laureate met such a fate was in 1938, when the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died in Nazi detention.
In the recent history ofour country, we South African writers have been faced directly in our poetry,prose, and plays with the daunting challenge of which Milosz spoke.Transformation of the world of apartheid by literary means and or style wassimply not a possibility in a world of racial classification, mass relocation,and removal of peoples; the silencing of our people by detention without trial;the banishment of our people to our own Devil’s Island; and the overwhelming andever-present racist rhetoric of Verwoerd, Botha, and Terreblanche.
At the same time, would-be jihadists have become aware of what would await them were they ever to return to Morocco: imprisonment for up to 15 years, in addition to ruthless police interrogations and severe detention conditions.
China, for example, is a model of despotic efficiency: its internal-security system extends from state-of-the-art surveillance and extralegal detention centers to an army of paid informants and neighborhood patrols that looks out for troublemakers.
Chen was released from detention but remains under house arrest and was dragged back to the police station on September 2 for unknown reasons.
For several weeks, Bachelet was blindfolded and strapped to a chair in the Villa Grimaldi detention center in Santiago as her captors threatened to kill her mother.
Equally important, the US and as many other countries as possible should make clear to Egypt’s military that the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leaders must stop unless the military tries them for publicly inciting violence.
Tens of thousands of presumably innocent Russian businessmen sit in pretrial detention because security officials want to seize their companies.
Morsi’s supporters cite the legitimacy of his victory in a democratic election a year ago – and the illegitimacy of the army’s coup and detention of the deposed president – while his opponents defend the legitimacy of the massive, countrywide protests against him.
The subject of an Interpol alert can face lengthy periods in detention while challenging extradition.
With some parents having been deported while their children remain in detention, it is possible that many of these families will never be reunited.
We need to rein in the bad actors; eliminate discrimination against migrants; sharply reduce human trafficking; increase the share of migrants working at their highest skill level; decriminalize migration violations; end the detention of migrant children; recast refugees as productive members of our communities; and lower the proportion of migrants lacking residency rights.
The struggles for power within China’s ruling Communist Party over the purge of Bo Xilai, and the blind activist Chen Guangcheng’s escape from detention during economic talks with the US, have made Chinese leaders’ nationalist assertions even more strident than usual.
But while Western governments issue statements critical of Russia – for its detention of Sentsov and of another 150 religious and political prisoners – their commitment to isolating Putin’s Russia for its behavior is clearly waning.
And we must vow never to hold children in detention.
And the prosecution of opposition members, which has now culminated in the arrest and detention of former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko – during an ongoing trial that most of the West has deemed political – seems to confirm that the rule of law is being brushed aside.
Supreme Court magistrates argue that, in order to get Lula in jail before the 2018 presidential campaign, Moro has disobeyed the rules of criminal procedure and manipulated the mechanisms of preventive detention.
Britain is not the only country where ancient rights of habeas corpus, of the inviolability of the person, are to be restricted by new legislation that, for example, extends the permissible length of detention without charge.
That form of "administrative detention," used primarily against migrant workers, was the basis for Sun's detention.
Arbitrary detention and torture are widespread.
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