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In justice and law, house arrest is the situation where a person is confined (by the authorities) to his or her residence. Travel is usually restricted, if allowed at all. House arrest is a lenient alternative to prison time. Lady Justice - allegory of Justice as woman with sword and with book - statue at court building. ...
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While house arrest can be applied to common criminal cases, when prison does not seem an appropriate measure, the term is often applied to the use of house confinement as a measure of repression of authoritarian governments against political dissidents. In that case, typically, the person under house arrest does not have access to means of communication (telephone). If electronic communication is allowed, conversations will be censored. The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population. ...
A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure. ...
The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ...
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Nowadays, in technologically advanced countries, house arrest is often enforced with the use of an electronic sensor locked to the offender's ankle (see ankle bracelet transmitter). The offender will not be able to remove the tracking device. If the subject and the sensor venture too far from the home, the violation is recorded and the proper authorities are summoned. Grays Fig. ...
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- Aung San Suu Kyi, Pro-democracy activist, has been under house arrest for extended periods. She is presently confined to her home in Rangoon yet again, under her third period of house arrest. Each of her three house arrests has been declared arbitrary by the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
- Ne Win Former military commander of Burma. He was deposed in 1988 and put under house arrest in 2001.
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- Pol Pot Former Premier of Cambodia. He was deposed when Vietnam attacked Cambodia in 1978.
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- Zhao Ziyang, purged Communist Chinese leader, was put under house arrest for the last 16 years of his life after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. His movements had to be approved by the Communist Party of China's Central Office, which only allowed him to travel quietly to different places inside China and to play golf.
- Jiang Yanyong, physician who revealed SARS incident in China. He was put under house arrest after requesting the government to investigate the June 4 Tiananmen incident.
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- Galileo Galilei was put under house arrest for his belief in Copernicus's theory of the sun in the middle of the universe and all the planets and stars revolving around it. He stayed under house arrest until 1642 when he died.
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- Chia Thye Poh, former leftist Member of Parliament, was arrested without charges and held under detention without trial in 1966. 22 years later, he was released and placed under house arrest in a guardhouse on the resort island of Sentosa and made to pay the rent, on the pretext that he was now a "free" man.
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Abram Louis Fischer, commonly known as Bram Fischer, (1908-1975) was a South African lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defense of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial. ...
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- Riddick Bowe, a former boxing champion, was sentenced to be under brief house arrest after being released from prison.
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- Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months of house arrest following her release from prison on March 4, 2005.
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