Word: incommunicado
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...December 8, the day before Charter 08 was posted on a U.S.-based Chinese web site, Beijing police arrested Liu Xiaobo, a dissident and one of the document's authors and signers. His lawyer, Mo Shaoping, says Liu is still being held incommunicado over a week later, and police have not revealed his whereabouts. Liu's supporters fear he could be charged with the offense of "inciting subversion of state power." Beijing-based activist Hu Jia was convicted of the same in April and sentenced to three and a half years in prison...
...hear it every year: if you freak out during an exam and have to be whisked away to UHS, you’ll be held “incommunicado.” That’s what they think: FM is here with 15 ways to reach the outside world if the “man” has got you on lockdown. 1) Flicker the lights in Morse Code with the hope that a steamy Navy Seal is standing near the window and can use his bulging muscles to rescue you from captivity. 2) Tap frantically...
FORGET WHETHER MCCARTHY was one of the several sources who gave the Washington Post the story about secret CIA-run prisons abroad; some people did. And thanks to those who shared that information, we know that the Bush Administration set up the prisons to hold "suspected terrorists" incommunicado, with no due process or the required notification of the Red Cross, and that some have been subjected to torture as defined by international treaties that the U.S. has signed and thus are the law of the land...
...since the CIA continues to “disappear” dozens of detainees into secret detention facilities where they are held incommunicado, there may be no opportunity to test the administration’s practices in court...
...place like London. There's more to life than packaged triangular sandwiches and council taxes." Shah has exchanged these dreary hazards for more substantial risks. Last July, while filming a travel documentary in Pakistan shortly after finishing the book, he was arrested and held incommunicado for 16 days in military prisons. His sister, British journalist Saira Shah, flew to Pakistan and managed to free him. "I have a U.K. passport and a Muslim-sounding name," says the author, whose grandfather was Afghan, "and it was right after the London bombings, so they must have found me suspicious. It was horrible...