Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken away by men in mufti who claim to be members of the country's security forces. When the desaparecido's family applies for habeas corpus, the government often claims to know nothing, if it replies at all. With luck, the missing person reappears in jail. The death of Lestrem, who according to human rights reports had been arrested in 1976, tortured and then released by Argentina's military junta, is a mystery. He could have been killed by the military, surmised a Buenos Aires defense lawyer. Or by leftist guerrillas because he had told too much...
...sputter of midnight traffic had given way to the long wait for dawn when the 1,400 inmates of Rawalpindi District Jail began to pray. Imperceptibly at first, their murmur grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away...
When Attorney General Griffin Bell was cited for contempt last summer and threatened with jail for refusing to release confidential FBI files, Washington Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. teasingly sent his good friend an unusual present. The Attorney General escaped the jail threat, but he hung the gift on his office door. It was still there when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. faced a contempt threat as a result of a North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell...
MARRIED. Patricia Campbell Hearst, 25, heiress, kidnap victim and convicted bank robber; and Bernard Shaw, 33, a burly cop who was her bodyguard before she went to jail; she for the first time, he for the second; in San Francisco...
Tanzanian forces reportedly freed at least 3800 prisoners from a Kampalan jail. International human rights groups say Amin was responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Ugandans and for incarcerating thousands more...