Word: incommunicado
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...During the first year of his detention, Dr. Yang Jianli was not only held incommunicado and in solitary confinement, but we just learned he was not allowed to exercise outside his cell, was denied access to all reading materials, and was interrogated by [People’s Republic of China] authorities over 100 times,” said Jared Genser, a legal advisor to Jianli’s family and also a KSG graduate. “Collectively, this treatment qualifies as torture under international...
...other three are serving 25-year terms. But several other alleged accomplices remain at large, and the man who may have slashed Pearl's throat - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a top Qaeda operative who recently revealed to U.S. authorities fresh details about the Sept. 11 attacks - is being held incommunicado...
...RECOVERING. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, detained Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from major surgery; in a private hospital in Rangoon. The Oxford-educated Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado by Burma's military government since a mob attacked her and a group of supporters four months...
...can’t say they act with what we can perceive as a great deal of thought or intention,” he said. “By holding him incommunicado for 14 months and putting him on trial for espionage they have turned him into a cause celebre who will come out of China as a hero when he’s eventually released...
...spirits are high and he’s looking forward to having his day in court, despite the fact that it’s taken 13 months of incommunicado detention as well as a couple more months of waiting,” he said...