They were tortured in a secret jail for two weeks before leaving Chile.

After managing a remarkable release from a secret jail in 1984, she fled from Honduras to exile.

He guessed that she was in a secret jail and, according to Ms. Murillo, let it be known he would pay for information on her whereabouts.

There were no secret jails.

"The Sandinistas take peasants away to secret jails as soon as they suspect they are cooperating with us, and many of them disappear."

He was detained for several months in the secret jails of the dictatorship then sentenced to a 20-year prison term by a military court.

In Baghdad, Iraqi officials said that American forces raided a small, secret jail and found several foreign prisoners, possibly people suspected of being terrorists.

The rockery was, it transpired, masking the entrance to the Satrap's secret jail.

His mother "vanished" during six months as the Gestapo kept her in a secret jail.

They open up a secret jail and picks up several criminals and political leaders and kills them, creating a panic among the ruling class.