Sentence examples for being imprisoned under from inspiring English sources

"We as writers, academics and defenders of freedom of expression are particularly disturbed to see colleagues we know and respect being imprisoned under emergency regulations".

Now I'm imprisoned under Slough".

A number of its members were executed and hundreds were imprisoned under brutal conditions.

In 1961 Danquah was imprisoned under the Preventive Detention Act but was released in 1962.

My dad, a miner, was imprisoned under the Pinochet regime for being a communist.

He still wonders why he was imprisoned under Suharto's regime.

Former President Nelson Mandela, who like Mr. Zuma was imprisoned under white rule, attended the ceremony.

Although I have never been a member of the Communist party, I myself have been imprisoned under that act.

The publisher, Adewale Adeeyo, caught sight of him, and explained that he had been imprisoned under military rule.

The older generation, many of whom were imprisoned under the former president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, should cede power to younger members, he says.

He was fond of telling people that he was the only Soviet filmmaker to have been imprisoned under Stalin, Brezhnev and Andropov.