I felt that [my wife] and the girls were thousands of miles away, when they were only 2,000 meters away... .. Amin said he lost 50 pounds in his first year of captivity.
About 90% of wild-caught reptiles die in the first year of captivity because of physical trauma prior to purchasing or because their owners cannot meet their complex dietary and habitat needs.
Mr. Hamdan, in his seventh year of captivity, noted that despite the judge's literal words, he had not been to the Supreme Court himself.
I am also all too conscious that somewhere within Gaza, now enduring his fourth year of captivity, is the young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and I equally repeat my call for his speedy release and return to his family.
"I would be in my fifth year of captivity had it not been for his extraordinary efforts in negotiating with the Iranian representatives," wrote Mr. Jacobsen, who at the time of his kidnapping was a hospital administrator in Beirut.
For the first year of his captivity, Waite was subjected to beatings and a mock execution.
But during his first year of diplomatic captivity the work began to seem marginal.
For their final few years of captivity, Castro treated his captives more liberally.
Over more than six hours of intense questioning by his defence lawyer, David Coombs, Manning, 24, set out for the court what he described as the darkness and absurdity of his first year in captivity.
In a separate development, the Israeli government issued a list of 550 Palestinian prisoners scheduled to be released early next week, the second part of a deal that freed Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit from more than five years of captivity in Gaza.
