Word: incommunicado
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...have channels open. This, again, is part of the misperception out there-that, somehow, we are incommunicado, we are not speaking to each other. We have been in communication with them, and intend to continue. [Reagan at this point recalled his first letter to Brezhnev, written in April 1981, while convalescing from the assassination attempt.] I wrote that letter to Brezhnev in longhand, and it was sent to him in longhand. I said to him that I have long believed that his people and our people wanted the same things: that those people out there on the street, in their...
...taken from the interrogation camp up to Richmond Hill prison, where they are being held for eventual trial. Among the 60 imprisoned at Richmond Hill is Bernard Coard, 39, Bishop's erstwhile deputy and the apparent mastermind of last month's coup. Because authorities are keeping Coard incommunicado, his brother Robert, director of Boston's antipoverty agency, has hired former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to intervene. "I just don't want Bernard to be railroaded," Robert Coard said. "All I'm saying to the American Government is let's play fair...
...headed a military junta with strong American support for the last 10 years, Amnesty International is investigating the "disappearances" of 250 prisoners of conscience. All political parties and activities are banned in Chile, and the government routinely makes arrests, banishes dissidents to remote areas of the country, holds people incommunicado for weeks, and worse. Justice is meager. One man, Guillermo Rodriguez Morales, was accused in 1981 of killing a government agent and sentenced to life imprisonment after a 45 minute trial...
...March 1977, Shcharansky was arrested and held incommunicado and without trial for 16 months. Despite the Soviet government's nominal constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and the right to criticize the government, Shcharansky was then convicted of "treason and espionage" and "anti-Soviet agitation." He was punished with a sentence of 13 years in prison and labor camps...
...lengthy report compiled by an Amnesty International mission that visited the Philippines in late 1981, made public today, documents widespread human rights abuses perpetrated by the security forces of the Philippines, including arbitrary arrests and killings, incommunicado detention, torture and other forms of ill-treatment. The report concludes that government agents "have systematically engaged in practices which violate fundamental human rights" and that such agents "are rarely held accountable for their actions, even where prima facie evidence of violations is overwhelmingly strong...