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After the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, the U.S. Army arrested and imprisoned more than 20 members of the German military.

Since the disputed election in June, Iran has shut eight newspapers, including Etemaad, Iran's most prominent reformist paper, and has imprisoned more than 100 journalists and bloggers.

Among those who turned up was Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader imprisoned more than a year ago on charges of terrorism.

On June 10th a judge released Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a former Black Panther who was imprisoned more than 25 years ago for allegedly murdering a Santa Monica school teacher, on $25,000 bail.

In the seven seeks since Mr. Morsi was deposed, the new authorities have unleashed even more deadly violence to crush his supporters' protests; security forces have killed more than 1,000 Morsi supporters, and, according to a tally of state news media reports, imprisoned more than 1,000 of his Islamist allies.

They also accuse him of conducting a vendetta against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was imprisoned more than two years ago for abuse of power.

Moreover, shame on anyone who perceives the problem with imprisoning more than two million American citizens as primarily an issue of wasteful government spending, and not as a matter of basic human rights.

He'll be just the man to respond to a national crisis by imprisoning more than 1,000 people without charges, while catching not a single person who has committed an act of terrorism -- not even the anthrax mailer.

On a per capita basis, we imprison more than three times as many people as any other western country.

Let's reexamine our system of mass incarceration a system that imprisons more than 2.3 million Americans, a comparable number to that of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea combined.

"It was very clear from his testimony in March that the administration simply forgot that our nation was responsible for arresting and imprisoning more than 120,000 Japanese American men, women and children during World War II," said Hanabusa, whose own grandparents were imprisoned for their Japanese heritage.