• There are some signs of that in Myanmar, where Aung San Suu Kyi, even under house arrest, bravely carries the torch for democracy amid the darkness imposed by the ruling junta.

    ECONOMIST: Only widows and orphans?

  • Mr. BAIG: Even if they put her under house arrest, other senior leadership - they'll continue the march.

    NPR: Pakistan's Musharraf Won't Lift Emergency Rule

  • Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she is still "fond" of her country's army, even though it kept her under house arrest for 15 years.

    BBC: Aung San Suu Kyi tells of fondness for Burma army

  • There is no doubt that many senior military figures were at the very least aware of Dr Khan's activities and their reluctance to have this information become public was widely seen as one reason why he was placed under house arrest with even the CIA not being provided direct access to ask him questions.

    BBC: Mixed emotions over Khan release

  • Last year, the former head of the Bank of China intolerably corrupt, it seems, even by Chinese standards was put under house arrest.

    ECONOMIST: Casino capital

  • Only a year ago Miss Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the past two decades under house arrest, was not even allowed to be mentioned in the government-controlled media.

    ECONOMIST: The government moves, and gets its rewards

  • It was trounced by the National League for Democracy, even though the opposition's charismatic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was already under house arrest.

    ECONOMIST: The generals leave nothing to chance

  • Miss Suu Kyi, who was previously confined for years under house arrest, has been allowed far greater freedom of movement and has even met several foreign visitors.

    ECONOMIST: Hope in Myanmar

  • Even in a period and a country in which upper-class boys were kept under permanent house arrest in the nursery before being exiled to their public school, the brilliant, the beautiful, the appalling Jennie Jerome was the most uncaring of mothers.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

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