He first contracted tuberculosis in the 1980s while detained in Robben Island prison.

BBC: Nelson Mandela home from hospital after check-up

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,

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

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

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'

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

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

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