Where was Tom being held?

British troops held that area.

Ms Golroo has been kept in solitary confinement for 2 months.

They held him for a few hours and then let him go free.

In 1864, the forces of the Taiping Rebellion held the town for six months.

Tom was kidnapped and held by his captors in an abandoned building on Park Street.

As Amnesty International explained in a statement demanding urgent action

His name has been deleted from the Adra Prison s register where he was detained, on 3 October 2015.

And paying off Turkey and others to keep the refugees would be both costly and unsustainable.

She later escaped the brothel where she was forced to work and took refuge in a shelter.

In Serbia, this unofficial but powerful system has been exploited by various democratic coalitions that held power between 2003 and 2012.

Today, however, the cohesive forces that held Europe together for two generations have lost some (if not all) of their strength.

The Chinese consumer has been held back for too long, and now must be put front and center in China s growth model.

Several Arab dictators who had held power for decades have already been ousted or forced to announce that they will retire.

There is the wall between those states that are already industrialized and those that do not want to be held back in their economic development.

Even if she persists, she may break her teeth on the same bones of contention that kept her predecessors from achieving security and peace.

Five years ago, Tsarukyan himself led his thugs in a break in at our office, taking my staff hostage for several hours.

Two men Abu Zubaydah and Abd al Rahim al Nashiri who where held and tortured in the detention centre in Poland, brought the case to the European Court.

In many ways, it has eroded or even eliminated the kind of arbitrary constraints that turned peaceable boys into aggressive men and stuck ambitious girls in low paying jobs.

The communists objected that Lyudmila Aristova, a deputy in the regional legislative assembly, was illegally detained in the blockaded administration building for more than four hours, and a complaint regarding this has been sent to the investigative committee.

BRUSSELS The rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages who had been held for years by FARC guerrillas marks more than a turning point in Colombia s long war against its drug running, Marxist guerrillas.

Subsequently Russians held on to the Amur Region until 1689, when by the Treaty of Nerchinsk this land was assigned to Chinese Empire (it was returned, however, by the Treaty of Aigun in 1858).

How did you handle that balance between being the tough diplomatic and strong voice of this country to the rest of the world and also how you felt about yourself as a mother, a grandmother, nurturing ...

Americans have been suspicious of Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis, in which Iranian students held 52 Americans at the US embassy for 444 days.

Late last month, Muscovites observed the eleventh anniversary of the infamous Nord Ost Siege at the city's Dubrovka Theater, a three day long hostage crisis, resolved only after special forces flooded the theater with a secret chemical agent intended to subdue the attackers.

Fear of these costs, combined with IMF bailouts, kept Argentina from abandoning its currency board long after it was clear that the system could not be sustained.

The US hardliners have their own long list of grievances, starting with the 1979 seizure of America s embassy in Tehran, in which 66 US diplomats and citizens were held for 444 days.

But if fortune favours the infidels, they say Did we not overpower you, and yet protected you against the believers?

Sharmila, 44, had intended to stay in a local Manipur colony after being discharged from the hospital, where she had been kept detained and force fed through a tube in her nose on the basis of a law that prohibits suicide.

Was that world a worse and more dangerous one than today, where our main nuclear concerns are how to prevent proliferation and strengthen the treaty that has deterred it for the last generation?

The fact that he was held for months incommunicado without judicial oversight and that he didn t have a lawyer to represent him during the investigations makes these trials nothing but a charade based on null and void procedures.

Indeed, while the Arab Spring ended the old corrupt bargain that kept so many autocratic rulers in power across the Muslim world, Zardari and his associates appear not to have received the message.

Saudi authorities arrested the men between September 23 and 26, 2011, then detained them in the General Investigations Prison in Damman for a year and a half before charging them and putting them on trial on April 29.