Sentence examples for clandestine prison from inspiring English sources
Known by some historians as the "grand orator" of the dictatorship for his captivating rhetoric, Mr. Massera operated the Naval Mechanics School, a clandestine prison known as ESMA where thousands of political prisoners were tortured over the six years of the regime, which collapsed in 1983.
U.S. officials hope her remarks will ease concerns raised in European capitals after The Washington Post reported on Nov. 2 that the CIA has operated a clandestine prison system in Eastern Europe and other countries.
In a 9 to 6 vote, the committee approved an amendment by Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich). requiring Negroponte to submit a classified report on each clandestine prison or detention facility the U.S. government has operated at home or abroad that held detainees labeled as terrorists.
Working behind the scenes, the CIA has gained approval from foreign governments to whisk terrorism suspects off the streets or out of police custody into a clandestine prison system that includes the CIA's black sites and facilities run by intelligence agencies in other countries.
Most worryingly, the rule of law has yet to be established in Libya; there are scores, if not hundreds, of heavily armed militias, many of whom have carried out violent attacks on their rivals in recent months, and some of whom maintain their own clandestine prisons, where they torture and execute their prisoners.
Another priest was accused of taking a newborn from his mother, one of the many baby thefts from female prisoners who were "disappeared" into a system of clandestine prisons.
Clandestine prisons were created in occupied Germany, occupied Japan and the Panama Canal Zone.
Within the clandestine prisons the Hairies are subjected to varying torments.
During the military dictatorship of the nineteen-seventies and eighties, many "disappeared" women gave birth at clandestine prisons, and their children were taken from them and given to citizens with ties to the right-wing government.
He is a former soldier of the dreaded Kaibil special forces, an alumnus of the U.S. School of the Americas, an officer who rose to the top of a murky military-intelligence apparatus now regarded — inside Guatemala and out — as synonymous with murder, disappearances, torture, clandestine prisons and graves, as well as with corruption.
In March police beat hundreds of men and women who had assembled to commemorate International Women's Day.The consequences of dissentAccording to Human Rights Watch, an international lobbying group, detainees are routinely tortured in clandestine prisons operated by the judiciary, the information ministry and the Revolutionary Guards.
