Word: incommunicado
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...EXECUTED. LOBSANG DHONDUP, 28, pro-independence activist and former Tibetan monk convicted in a secret trial for inciting separatism and carrying out a string of bombings; in Sichuan province. Dhondup was held incommunicado for several months and denied adequate legal representation, according to Amnesty International...
...executive order implementing military tribunals is even more troubling. By identifying someone as an “illegal combatant,” a classification that does not appear in any of the international conventions on the conduct of war, the president asserts the power to hold someone incommunicado and without charges. The order categorically denies federal courts jurisdiction over these tribunals. Moreover, the administration has insisted that the classification of enemy combatants is not subject to review by any court. These procedures make a mockery of an independent judiciary and the separation of powers...
Even now constitutional issues are cropping up. Gerald H. Goldstein, counsel to Albader Al-Hazmi, a material witness said to be detained incommunicado for six days until he was allowed to see a lawyer, observed to The Post, “This is a good lesson about how frail our processes are... It’s how we treat people in difficult times like these that is the true test of the democracy and civil liberties that we brag so much about throughout the world...
...when Choephel returned to Tibet, things began to go wrong. Barely a month after he arrived in August 1995 to begin making a documentary on music and dance, he was detained by the Chinese government and held incommunicado. No official announcement of his status was made until December 1996, when state radio reported that a closed court had found him guilty and handed down a sentence of 18 years, one of the longest ever given to a Tibetan political prisoner. Says a Tibetan academic living in Beijing: "[The Chinese] assume that being a Fulbright means you're working...
When it folded, 35 employees remained; more than a month later, around 25 of them were still out of work. Lui was off climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and was incommunicado. The Giants were shaping up for another season. And TheMan.com stood as a sobering reminder of the perils of trying to get rich quick...