In some instances, administrative authorities detained the victims in holding cells for their protection.

Most of these students are being held in isolation cells in the notorious Evin prison.

Solitary confinement in darkened cells is understood to be a frequent punishment for any complaints made.

Moreover, the existence of illegal punishment cells (cachots), which are true hellholes, continues be reported.

Now as both the causes of the all the evil are effectively contained in jail cells, so a sun of eternal lasting peace is supposed to rise in the horizon today.

The justice system for minors requires particular attention, as minors continue to be detained together with adults in police cells and prisons.

In certain situations, persons reportedly have been transferred to unknown locations and have been detained incommunicado for prolonged or indefinite periods.

In the 1980s during the military dictatorship of Mengistu Hailemariam his writings caused him to spend 12 harrowing years in the dungeons of Addis Ababa as a political prisoner.

According to the study, detainees are held in solitary confinement, forced to give birth in prison cells, tortured, verbally and sexually abused and threatened.

They endured 17 long months in solitary confinement and a trial tainted by manipulation, bias and the vengeful hatred of the anti Cuban mafia and its slanders.

The group was protesting against a decision by the prison authorities to force political prisoners to share cells with prisoners convicted of criminal offences, who allegedly ill treated them.

The data provided on deaths in police cells did not fully address the Committee's questions concerning ill treatment in prison and deaths resulting therefrom.

Persons detained at PSI were held incommunicado until ONUB was granted access on 22 November.

In Southern Darfur, human rights officers were permitted to visit the Kuria prison in Nyala, were granted access to all cells in the prison and were allowed to interview a number of prisoners in private.

And when I worked in the prison system, it was so clear to me, this that many of us in this room, and almost all of the men that I worked with on death row, the seeds of their own compassion had never been watered.

Hundreds of people suspected of links with FNL were arrested without warrants, held beyond the legal limit without charge and incommunicado, and some were tortured.

The Procurator General has issued warnings regarding the risk of human rights violations in the country's prisons, caused by problems resulting from extreme overcrowding, unhealthy sanitary conditions and solitary confinement.

In some of the locations previously occupied by the Syrian military intelligence, such as the Hotel Beau Rivage in Beirut, the Villa Jaber outside Beirut and the American School in the Tripoli area, cells were found where it was apparent that prisoners had been held.

But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts thoughts of walking through the prison's high security death row, as this was the only route to take me to the makeshift operating room.

Some of them were legally detained at Penitentiary Unit 7 in Resistencia, Chaco, while others were brought from prisons in Misiones Province on 12 December they were all taken to the Resistencia police headquarters, tortured, and locked up in individual cells.

(d) The visit to Bahrain in 2001 by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention which was granted unrestricted access to all prisons and police station holding cells and was able to speak freely and without witnesses to prisoners it selected at random

The situation of women detainees was described as dire by several witnesses. They were allegedly threatened with rape, subjected to humiliating body searches, forced to strip, and were guarded by female reservists while their cells were searched by male guards or soldiers.