Sentence examples for prisons without trial from inspiring English sources

He was never charged in relation to his arrest but has spent nearly seven years in British prisons without trial awaiting extradition to the US for alleged terrorism offences.

"We ourselves or our family members were dragged into prisons without trial, we suffered unspeakable torture and humiliation when we were caught while trying to flee North Korea, and we had to witness neighbors and relatives dying while waiting for food rations," their statement said.

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas raised the issue of Babar Ahmad, who has spent seven years in British high-security prisons without trial as he fights extradition to the US on terror allegations.

The outcome was six months in prison without trial.

He is facing trial next February, by which time he will have spent 983 days in prison without trial.

Religious leaders "who step beyond their bounds in government matters are often sent to prison without trial".

There he was arrested again, and spent three months in prison without trial before being returned to military service.

Many of those convicted of real terror offences have served sentences shorter than the time Mr Aamer has spent in prison without trial.

A former senator who was Aristide's final Prime Minister and spent two years in prison, without trial, after Aristide was overthrown in 2004, is well known.

For his beliefs and his courage, he was held in Butyrka prison without trial, where he was beaten, became ill and died.

As the sentence approached its end the government rushed a special law through parliament to keep him in prison without trial, renewable each year.