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He first contracted tuberculosis in the 1980s while detained in Robben Island prison.
BBC: Nelson Mandela home from hospital after check-up
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In 1971, security forces in Northern Ireland detained hundreds of guerrilla suspects and put them in the Maze prison, the beginning of an internment without trial policy.
CNN: Sunday,
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Last month, a Congress minister, Mani Shankar Aiyer, ruled that a quotation from him should be expunged from a memorial at the prison in the Andaman islands where he was detained.
ECONOMIST: India's opposition
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Also Wednesday, a public prosecutor decided to send Hosni Mubarak -- who has spent the last few months detained in a military hospital -- back to prison, prosecutor spokesman Mahmoud Hefnawi told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper.
CNN: Mubarak retrial scheduled for May 11
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Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari, detained for nearly four months in a Tehran prison on charges of conspiring against the government, was freed on bail Tuesday, a judiciary official said, but was unclear if she would be allowed to leave the country.
NPR: Freed Scholar in Iran: Release Was 'Unexpected'
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According to this person, SEBI in its application to the Supreme Court asked that Mr. Roy, and other founders of two Sahara real estate firms, be detained in a civil prison and they be told to surrender their passports to the court to prevent them from fleeing the country.
WSJ: India Moves Court to Detain Sahara Chairman
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Iranian state-run television last night broadcast extensive interviews with two Iranian Americans who have been detained in a prison in Tehran since May, accused of espionage and acts against the national security of Iran.
NPR: Iran Airs Interviews with Two U.S. Detainees
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On 11 January 2002 some 20 men detained in Afghanistan on suspicion of belonging to Al-Qaeda became the first inmates at a newly opened US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
BBC: Inside Guantanamo Bay