Former Argentine Gen Eduardo Cabanillas has been sentenced to life in prison for running a notorious detention centre during military rule in 1976-83.
Torture is routine in government detention centres.
A separate group of 158 refugees were deported from a detention centre on the border.
In America Barack Obama moved quickly to ban the most abusive methods of interrogation and promised to shut the detention centre at guantanamo Bay.
Young male offenders identified as having special needs are, on discharge from a training centre or the detention centre, housed at Phoenix House for up to three months before they are permitted to live at home or in other places while they continue to receive after-care supervision.
The tiny Pacific country of Palau accepted 17 former prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre.
In 1997, 6937 offenders were remanded for suitability reports, and the selection board deemed 3790 - 3367 males and 423 females - suitable for admission to a training centre or the detention centre.
On 16 and 17 September 1976, masked men raided their homes under cover of darkness, taking them away to clandestine detention centres in what became known as the "Night of the Pencils".
WikiLeaks and its media partners have published detailed records of the Afghan and Iraq wars, hundreds of classified American diplomatic cables and records from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre.
After about a week at our first detention centre, we were all taken to another place in a truck.
Barack Obama collides with former vice-president as he vows to push ahead with plans to close detention centre.
The United States has reinforced medical staff at its detention centre at Guantanamo Bay to handle the expanding hunger strike by prisoners.
He recently agreed to the release of thousands of pictures of prisoner abuse at us detention centres round the world but later backtracked.
Yet Evin, as well as several of Tehran's lesser detention centres, has been busier than ever in the past two months.
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