The interview that Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who was secretly detained by the Egyptian government, gave to Egypt's Dream TV just after his release is incredibly compelling.

In early July the Moroccan authorities had freed a number of prisoners previously deemed to have "disappeared", who had been secretly detained for up to 15 years.

He was secretly detained and executed on orders of Guatemalan military officials.

He was then detained secretly for over a week, repeatedly beaten and threatened with death, and eventually charged with belonging to a terrorist group.

Investigators say that it is possible that some of the missing protesters are still being detained secretly.

In fact, General Gutierrez was secretly detained on Feb. 6.

These two journalists and their interpreter have been secretly detained since 5 June in Vientiane in Laos.

Human rights groups say that at least 400 people are suspected to have been detained secretly by these agencies since 2001.

The police confiscated videotapes from two foreign television crews, and some of Mr. Wang's friends and colleagues were secretly detained Tuesday and released today after the trial was over.

Human rights groups estimate that some 5,000 people were secretly detained at the Navy Mechanics School over the course of seven years of military rule, and that only about 100 of them survived.