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>Jailing them repeatedly one question at a time is clearly abusive.

I believe this statement is where they tried to delineate between "a number of countries" and this instance but I'm not the OC, so I can't speak for them; however, that's the way that I'm reading it.

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I possibly put it badly. I have no problem with courts questioning people or even the detainment for questioning (as long as it does not become a pattern of harrassment). What I am against is ongoing detention outside of what is neccesary for the purposes of attempting to ask someone questions. If they do not speak, then you have to keep asking, but you cannot ask all the time. Locking someone up, especially in solitary as it appears they have done in this case, as a punishment for not speaking, is pretty barbaric.

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