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House Arrest

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house arrest
confinement to one's own home

House Arrest 

one of the forms of restriction of personal freedom in which the detainee is confined to his home, with or without a guard. Soviet criminal law does not provide for house arrest.



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He will not be transferred to Gstaad today or during the weekend," Folco Galli, Swiss justice ministry spokesman told AFP, referring to the ski resort where Polanski will be under house arrest in his chalet.
Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced in August to a further 18 months of house arrest for sheltering an uninvited American intruder after he swam to her lakeside home in May.
Washington has repeatedly pressed for the release of Suu Kyi, who has spent much of the past 20 years in detention, but on Friday her appeal against her extended house arrest was rejected by a Yangon court.
 
 
 
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