Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flew to Bhopal later in the week. Immediately after his arrival, he and two officials of the company's Indian subsidiary were arrested and charged with "negligence and criminal corporate liability" and "criminal conspiracy," which under Indian law carries a maximum penalty of death. Instead of being taken to prison, the three executives were detained at the company's comfortable Bhopal guesthouse, surrounded by 50 armed guards to protect them from possible mob attacks, and cut off from communication with the outside world. After more than six hours, Anderson was released on $2,500 bond and flown to New Delhi...
...when one considers the dire need for coherent action and the tremendous potential for awakening the world to the problem. Amnesty International reported recently that in the Phillipines alone over 70,000 people have been detained for political reasons since 1972. Three thousand of the detainees have remained in prison while the United States has given $900 million in aid to the Phillipines. Furthermore, thousands of death squad murders committed for reasons varying from political crimes to petty economic crimes are occurring annually all over the world...
...transatlantic courier for Czechoslovak intelligence, she was taken into custody last week only as a witness to her husband's alleged crimes. She was not charged, a Justice Department official suggested, because the FBI bungled her arrest. If convicted, Karl Koecher could be sentenced to life in prison...
...onetime South Korean army officer, has been the trusted adviser of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, spiritual leader and founder of the Unification Church. One evening last September. Pak, who has been acting as leader of the church while Moon serves an 18-month sentence in federal prison for tax evasion, was abducted outside a Manhattan hotel. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Pak was driven 80 miles to a house in Slate Hill, N.Y., where his kidnapers tortured him with electric shocks. Two days later, Pak's abductors ordered him to fly to Washington and transfer $500,000 in church funds...
...part investigation, broadcast to viewers of ABC's World News Tonight last September, was bizarre by any measure. Scott Barnes, who has sometimes presented himself as a "paramilitary expert," claimed he had taken a job as a prison guard in 1983 at the request of the CIA to watch Ronald Rewald, a Honolulu investment counselor who is under indictment for defrauding approximately 400 investors of $22 million. Barnes said that the CIA then told him, "We gotta take him out." According to the ABC show, Rewald's company had provided cover for several CIA operations, including the arrangement...