The Toronto Police Service botched a sexual assault investigation so badly that the perpetrator was not arrested for five years, when another police force apprehended him for another sexual assault, according to documents obtained by VICE.
The opposition leader has repeatedly denied sexually assaulting a former young male aide, a crime he was arrested for seven years ago, and has long accused the government of executing a witch hunt against him in attempts to stamp out political competition.
The experiences of Takashi Sugishima, a Japanese newspaper reporter who was arrested, detained for two years and repeatedly interrogated by North Korean authorities before finally being released in February, may provide a clue to the hardships some of the disappeared may have had to endure.
In 1954, their activism against colonial rule landed them in prison for six months; after that, they were under house arrest for two years.
"I was kept under house arrest for two years," Ashwin said in 2012, "where I was given drugs by my father to make me straight".
On Sept. 12, Judge Foster ruled he had violated his probation by driving while impaired and put him under house arrest for two years.
The case closely resembles the prosecution of Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, who was held under house arrest for two years in London following the issuing of a warrant for his arrest in Spain.
In 2008, a few days after his high-school graduation, Sheran was involved in the accidental death of one of his friends, and was put under house arrest for two years as the case puttered through the Georgia court system.
Then he was put under house arrest for two years in his hillside estate, where he would receive visitors in a chamber decorated with the framed gold pen he used to sign the papers nationalizing Venezuela's oil industry.
Ashwin also alleges that Srinivasan subjected him to "constant physical and mental torture" and put him under "house arrest for two years", during which time he was "given drugs by my father to make me straight".
