Like her husband and sons, Mrs. Mubarak was formally detained for 15 days for questioning, but in Egypt that typically amounts to indefinite imprisonment because the detention is routinely renewed, as it has been in the cases of her sons and husband.
Furthermore, the language used to describe this detention authorization is so broad that many argue that even American citizens are now susceptible to indefinite imprisonment.
Over the many months, the solidarity the three of us shared immediately after the kidnapping on Nov. 10 frayed under the threat of execution and indefinite imprisonment.
"Congress is essentially authorising the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens, without charge," she said.
In this case the terrible things are pre-emptive war (that is, aggression), targeted assassinations, "coercive interrogations" (torture lite) and indefinite imprisonment of suspects without trial or counsel.
Re "Senators Laud Treatment of Detainees in Guantánamo" (news article, June 28): It's remarkable that anyone could view as humane the indefinite imprisonment of a person who is given no access to his family, a lawyer or a court.
Paul, to his credit unlike Obama and the other GOP candidates violently opposes indefinite imprisonment of American citizens without due process.
When asked about the conditions he witnessed, Professor Isaacs talked of women and children too scared to go to the bathroom after dark, canvas tents with no running water, and the indefinite imprisonment of entire families in Nauru's hot, humid and inhospitable terrain in the middle of the island, well away from its 10,000 inhabitants.
Incarceration type was recorded as remand, ordinary prison sentence or preventive detention (indefinite imprisonment of particularly dangerous but sane individuals).
