ASSK was under house arrest on and off for more than 10 years as a
political prisoner. The authoritarian military junta in a way was quite
kind, I mean relatively, to let her stay in her own house. At least she
was at home most of the time and with her supporters around her. It was
not the solitary confinement type, and if I am not mistaken, she was
spared the rounds of torture that some





