This confirms that the author was indeed under house arrest.

In March 1997, Sankoh fled to Nigeria, where he was put under house arrest and then imprisoned.

He was then placed under arrest and detained, pending an appearance before the public prosecutor, scheduled to take place on October 2, 2014.

In the streets following the announcement of the results, people have been chanting as well.

On 3 November 2007, Khan was put under house arrest, after president Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan.

The State party particularly stresses that house arrest would not have provided any guarantee, given the complainant's violent history of escape attempts.

(b) The events of 30 May 2003 and the continuing detention and house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and members of the National League for Democracy

After the court delivered its verdict, the regime halved the sentence and agreed to keep Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, rather than moving her to one of its worst jails.

Several people who celebrated Hassan Rouhani's victory in presidential election in Shiraz chanted slogans to support Mir Hussein Mousavi, an opposition leader who has been under house arrest for several years.

More than 100 writers have been thrown into prison for publishing political essays on the Internet, and their family members have been monitored, or, like Liu Xiaobo s wife, have been placed under house arrest.

He further claims that the restriction on his movement during house arrest and his current de facto prohibition from leaving and entering his country amount to a breach of article 12 of the Covenant.

Following his escape from house arrest in 1988, domestic remedies were no longer available to him as a fugitive.

Pol Pot died in 1998 while under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge.

Over the next two decades, he was imprisoned several times, and held under house arrest when not in prison.

Since the Tiananmen killings, which he had tried to avert through compromise, he had been under house arrest.

The author was then placed under house arrest between 7 February 1986 and 28 March 1988.

Leaders of the Green Movement are still under house arrest following massive protests after the controversial 2009 presidential election.

After 9 11, Saad fled to Iran and was later detained and placed under house arrest by Iranian authorities.

The Committee further notes that this house arrest was imposed on him after his acquittal and release by virtue of a final judgement of the Military Tribunal.

Today, growing political terror is having a stifling effect on Chinese society. More than 100 writers have been thrown into prison for publishing political essays on the Internet, and their family members have been monitored, or, like Liu Xiaobo s wife, have been placed under house arrest.

Instead, on 22 May, Elizabeth was moved from the Tower to Woodstock, where she was to spend almost a year under house arrest in the charge of Sir Henry Bedingfield.

China s government has blocked Liu s wife, the acclaimed photographer Liu Xia, from participating by keeping her under virtual house arrest in Beijing.

Karimov has no obvious successor after ties with eldest daughter Gulnara Karimova reportedly soured so sharply that she is being kept under house arrest in the country.

Furthermore, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi not only remains under house arrest, but along with her deputy has also had her detention extended for a further year.

The General Secretary of NLD, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Vice Chairman, U Tin Oo, remain under house arrest, with no date given by the Government for their release.

He is currently being held under house arrest and has reportedly received a lengthy suspended sentence, having been convicted on charges which included corruption and bribery.

While the Transitional Government appears to have taken certain measures to restrict the movement of some of these individuals by placing them under house arrest, their means of communication have not been restricted.

It is deeply regrettable that the General Secretary of NLD, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrated her sixtieth birthday under house arrest.

Chen was released from detention but remains under house arrest and was dragged back to the police station on September 2 for unknown reasons.

As part of the trade off, terrorist leaders who are officially under house arrest like Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed remain able to open offices, address rallies, and preach jihad freely.

Instead, Zhao was allowed to remain in suspended animation, under house arrest, conveniently forgotten like some cryogenically frozen celebrity with no hope of resurrection.

Two women gave birth in prison during the period under review and were allowed few family visits.

U Shwe Ohn (82), a Shan leader, remains under house arrest since being detained following a meeting of Shan politicians on 7 February 2005.

But, for this dialogue to have any real legitimacy, it must include the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has endured decades of house arrest, and her party, the NLD.

Montazeri was placed under house arrest for six years demonstrations of support for him were suppressed and many of his disciples and close friends were imprisoned, tortured, killed, or forced to flee the country.

Among those prisoners detained under the State Protection Law is Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest pursuant to this legislation for over nine of the last 16 years.

3.2 The author claims that his detention from 8 October 1981 to 7 October 1982 and from 31 May 1985 to 3 February 1986, as well as his subsequent house arrest from 7 February 1986 to 28 March 1988, were arbitrary and in breach of article 9, paragraph 1, of the Covenant.

One important change was the release of hundreds of political prisoners, including the regime s most prominent opponent, Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been under house arrest for nearly 15 years.

Because he opposed the hard liners in his own government, he was put under house arrest until his death in 2005, and his memoirs had to be smuggled out of the country on cassettes, disguised as Peking Opera recordings.

It would be most desirable to have an independent assessment of the conditions of detention of all persons detained, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and all those under house arrest, by a neutral body such as ICRC.

There has been a great deal of speculation about the consequences of Bo s fall, and of the daring escape of the human rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, after 18 months of house arrest. Will his flight to the US embassy harden the attitudes of China s leaders?

(b) The detention and the house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the persistent denial of her human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of movement, as well as the continued detention of other senior leaders of the National League for Democracy

4.11 With regard to exhaustion of domestic remedies, the Committee takes note of the author's argument that, following his escape from house arrest in 1988, he was not in a position to seek redress at the domestic level, as a person who was wanted in Cameroon.

After all, despite Burma s strategic importance vis à vis China and Aung San Suu Kyi s release from house detention, the US continues to enforce stringent sanctions against that country, with the aim of toppling its government.

Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.