confinement

Solitary confinement is routinely used in Belarus as punishment against political prisoners for petty "violations", such as not greeting the guards loudly enough.

In 2012, Shankar was moved to a new enclosure that left him virtually in solitary confinement - despite a 2009 federal ban on keeping elephants alone for more than six months.

It includes deciding on the fate of Ocalan, who has been in solitary confinement since 1999, and possible security guarantees for his fighters.

But they raised serious concerns about overcrowding, solitary confinement, food hygiene, the complaints process, the daily regime and the treatment of vulnerable prisoners.

Mr. Lai is the imprisoned newspaper owner who has spent nearly five years in Hong Kong jails—most of it in solitary confinement—as he’s being tried for collusion with foreign forces.