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incommunicado

in kuh myooh nuh ko doh

  • s  without the means or right to communicate
    a prisoner held incommunicado
    incommunicado political detainees

  • A Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the .
  • In recent years, dissidents have reached the West with tales of political victims held incommunicado in psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugged into a docile stupor, beaten or .
  • He remained incommunicado, but his wife told the Boston Globe that he was taking Lewis' death very hard.
News & Articles

  • Top Democrats to meet Monday on pensions
    SPRINGFIELD — Mike Madigan has spoken. The powerful House speaker and Gov. Pat Quinn finally connected Friday after going much of the week incommunicado following Madigan’s snub of a Tuesday meeting with Quinn and Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) to talk pensions. The upshot is the three Democratic leaders have all agreed to sit in the same place on Monday to see if a deal can’t be ...
    June 8, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times
  • Gov. Quinn’s call finally goes through — and Madigan agrees to talk pensions Monday
    SPRINGFIELD — Mike Madigan has spoken. The powerful House speaker and Gov. Pat Quinn finally connected Friday after going much of the week incommunicado following Madigan’s snub of a Tuesday meeting with Quinn and Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) to talk pensions. The upshot is the three Democratic leaders have all agreed to sit in the same place on Monday to see if a deal can’t be ...
    June 7, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times
Quotes

  • Louise Arbour in USA Today
    It would appear that the accused were only given access to lawyers after the trials began; confessions were obtained while the accused were held incommunicado and in the absence of legal counsel, and the court did not investigate allegations of ill... Ashraf Qazi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashraf_Qazi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFyMsv0FVIjrOtBFBvWIXOI9uDI3w Reuters http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/africaCrisis/idUSMCD734587&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNER67PKh4yfgYjwj4yR6XWVlBSrag Aug 7, 2008 50638 68324 incommunicado Arbour said that the reported existence of secret detention centers where suspects are held incommunicado is ...... of grave concern."
  • Sima Samar in Reuters South Africa
    In the period under review, there have been widespread allegations of arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, incommunicado detention and serious violations of the right to fair trial,Samar said in her latest annual report covering two...

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