When he reminded her that her own sister-in-law had been kidnapped and tortured in a clandestine prison - that she had even visited her there - she began to cry.

Operating clandestine prisons in major port cities for detainees whose transportation to the New World was not strictly legal, became a lucrative trade on both sides of the Atlantic in this period.

There were other people in the clandestine cell, the clandestine prison, as well, and I could hear terrible screams.

Her daughter, a well-known urban comandante, Lil Milagro Ramirez, has been captured and was last seen in a clandestine prison some three years ago).

There is very little apparent logic in the selection of people who are sent to state prisons as opposed to being killed or kept in a clandestine prison.

In the Panama Canal Zone the CIA then "set up clandestine prisons to wring confessions out of suspected double agents."

He is not languishing in a filthy, clandestine prison, and his body has not been found floating down river from Santiago, weeks after he was "disappeared."

Diana Ortiz, an Ursuline sister, was abducted, taken to a clandestine prison, tortured and gang-raped by members of the military.

The judge ordered mass graves excavated, visited clandestine prisons, interviewed relatives of the disappeared and dead, even interrogated General Pinochet himself.

Cuban diplomats were also assassinated in Buenos Aires in the infamous Automotores Orletti torture center, one of the 300 clandestine prisons of the dictatorship.