Osama Nasr, aka Omar Al Masry, wrote a detailed memoir of how he was tortured in that headquarters.

He was allowed to go to the toilet once a day, and the cell was cold and dark.

He can read and study and has access in his cell to television, books, magazines and music.

He was detained by the Assad regime on 15 March 2012, and disappeared from his prison cell in October 2015.

He claims that he was placed on cell rotation as a form of punishment for making a complaint to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) and that this is highlighted by the fact that he was the only prisoner subjected to such rotation.

Back at the Torah prison, he had spent some time in the prison hospital before returning to a normal cell.

He could access the boxes of documents by trading boxes in his cell for others in storage.

But Barghouti has begun speaking out from his jail cell on the political situation, and his presence is growing.

Shi Tao, in his jail cell, was undoubtedly pleased to learn that China is ruled by law, not by the Communist Party.

Some political prisoners were able to hang a banner outside their cell. They urged the Pope to look into the worsening human rights situation in the country.

After each assessment, the governor increased the number of boxes the author could keep in his cell.

By 6 February 1997, he had been permitted to retain 24 boxes of legal documents in his cell.

His wife, Noura Ghazi, reported that military police took Bassel from his cell in Adra with a top secret sealed order from the Military Field Court.

In a message sent to his parents from his cell, he implored them to help him, and said that he was being beaten, but refused to confess because he was not a murderer.

On 2 July 1789, he reportedly shouted out from his cell to the crowd outside, They are killing the prisoners here!

The next day, all the artists were invited to join Mandela in Robben Island, where he was going to give a conference to the world's press, standing in front of his former prison cell.

He never returned to his cell. He was taken to the psychiatric ward, where, according to another prisoner who had been there, he was kept until he died.

You can't help being a prisoner within your own mind, but the least you can do is ensure that the cell is decently furnished.

It notes that the author and the State party concur that the punishment consisted in confinement of the prisoner to his cell for 23 hours a day.

In the latter, he claimed that he had been confined to his cell for 23 hours a day since 30 November 2000, allegedly because he was considered a troublemaker .

On June 3, while I was visiting Guantánamo with other journalists, the press office there issued a terse announcement that al Hanashi had had been found dead in his cell an apparent suicide.

At the end of the June 2002 visit, Embassy staff observed the complainant in seemingly relaxed conversation with several prison guards, awaiting return to detention.

But the historic five day trial dispelled any notion that Bo would go quietly to his cell in Beijing s infamous Qincheng Prison, where China s fallen top leaders are incarcerated.

The author stated in his application that he continued to be subjected to degrading treatment and routine strip searches that he was not allowed to have newspapers that he was denied access to athletic facilities and that his belongings were treated roughly whenever there was a cell inspection.

5.10 On 20 December 2002, the author reiterated his previous claims and concedes that after challenging his placement on the security list, he was not required to move cells after September 1997.

Following the theft of meat from the prison butchery, where the author had worked until 29 October 1997, he was placed under strict house arrest and his privilege to use a computer was withdrawn until after he had started to work again in February 1998.

Regarding the author's assertion that he was punished by being confined to his cell for 23 hours a day, the Committee notes that the State party admits the punishment and the description given of it, but disagrees with how long it lasted.

Bernard Madoff who hailed from down market part of New York City and attended a middling university will spend time behind bars, but none of the titans of Wall Street with blue chip pedigree will ever do so.

Article 10 of the Covenant is said to have been violated during the investigation, as Mr. Zhurin was beaten and deprived of food, thus violating his human dignity he was detained together with criminal recidivists who threatened him with physical violence and the investigators threatened to hang him in his cell and to disguise his death as a suicide.