Thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were also released.

Thousands of political prisoners were shot after investigations.

Thousands of political prisoners who opposed the Islamist regime were killed especially during the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners.

The first use recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, is in The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details, by I. Windslow Ayer, in alleging that, at a meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois said: " Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘ send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.

Thousands of correspondence courses and books sent to prisoners and on three occasions CII examinations were held in prisoner of war camps.

Ayer alleges that, at an August meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, the Judge Morris noted above said: " Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘ send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.

Thousands attended the two memorial ceremonies which were held in Moscow and in Leningrad.

Thousands of nearby city residents attend the Carver County Fair which is held in Waconia.

Thousands of Arabs were held in administrative detention, without trial, and without proper sanitation, in overcrowded prison camps.

Thousands of Hoosiers paid last respects to Carson by visiting the casket and attending an evening ceremony held in the Statehouse, including the Rev.

Thousands of tournaments are held each year at high schools throughout the US.

Thousands of students, old and young, come from all over North America and around the world to attend summer sessions and courses held throughout the year.

Thousands of white soldiers were held on the outskirts of Washington D. C. while waiting to be discharged from their service in the World War I. Boredom eventually hit ; and when it did, a riot broke that lasted five days and left 6 dead and 150 wounded.

To mark the occasion on the morning of Merdeka Day, Thousands of spectators converge on the city to watch the colourful parade along the streets of the city and performances held at the Merdeka Square.

NLC's other yearly conference is the Congressional City Conference, held each March in Washington, D. C. Thousands of municipal officials discuss NLC legislative priorities with Members of Congress and the Administration, share promising practices, discuss policy and participate in leadership training opportunities.

Thousands of writer's forums, author visits, political debates, award ceremonies, academic lectures, performances, and public hearings are held for both the academic community and general public throughout the year in Tishman.

Thousands of international meetings were held in their support, including some 600 meetings amongst workers in the United States, organized by the Industrial Workers of the World and with Joe Hill as a leading participant.

Thousands of Vukovar's Serbs had suffered alongside their Croatian neighbours, sheltering in basements or bomb shelters for three months in appalling conditions, but after their " liberation " they were denigrated as the podrumaši, the " people from the basement ".

Thousands of families migrated from the post-Reconstruction South to seek more opportunities and better living conditions in the Midwest.

They droop in the terrible heat, and with the insufficient unsuitable food ; whatever you do, whatever the authorities do, and they are, I believe, doing their best with very limited means, it is all only a miserable patch on a great ill. Thousands, physically unfit, are placed in conditions of life which they have not strength to endure.

Thousands gathered at the complex in difficult conditions with no power, no water, no food, no medical supplies, no proper sanitation, and no public order, only minimal occasional law enforcement presence within the center, resulting in incidents of crime and gang violence.

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Thousands remained in the city ; the others had fled and the Nazi soldiers abandoned it.

Thousands of copies were dropped from military airplanes over Europe during Nazi German Occupation.

Thousands of suspected anti-fascist Republicans were, nonetheless, deported to concentration camps in Germany.

Thousands were arrested, tortured, tried, and imprisoned in concentration camps, deported to the east, or were executed, including ÁVH founder László Rajk.

Thousands of Communists were imprisoned in concentration camps, including Thälmann and the party's leader in the Reichstag, Ernst Torgler.

Thousands of monarchists were executed or sent to concentration camps, and the pretender to the throne, Otto von Habsburg, fled to the United States, being sentenced to death in absentia by the Nazis.

Thousands of Africans and Boer women and children were forcibly moved from their land into concentration camps, where some 40, 000 people perished.

Thousands more perished in the Ponary massacre, in German concentration camps, and in ghettos.

" Thousands of their family members were imprisoned for years in work camps and jails and later exiled for decades to miserable state farms built on reclaimed marshlands.

Thousands of residents evacuated to refugee camps in the British-zoned areas or farther afield to neighbouring towns and makeshift shelters during this period.

Thousands of Jewish residents of Jaffa fled for Tel Aviv and were temporarily housed in tent camps on the beach.

Thousands of students from Saigon's leading high school, most of them children of public servants and military officers, were sent to re-education camps.

Thousands of these enemy aliens were also interned in camps or deported from Canada.

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs, fleeing towns captured by Israel, settled in refugee camps around Nablus and in Nablus itself.

Thousands died in forced labor camps such as Lambinowice, Zgoda labour camp, Central Labour Camp Potulice, Central Labour Camp Jaworzno, Glaz, Milecin, Gronowo, and Sikawa.

Thousands of Jewish residents of Jaffa fled for Tel Aviv and were temporarily housed in tent camps on the beach.

Thousands of homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, conscientious objectors, and dissidents were forced to conduct their compulsory military service in the 1960s at UMAP camps, where they were subject to political " reeducation ".

Thousands of them died in disease epidemics common to the squalor of refugee camps, such as cholera and dysentery.

Thousands of Red Guards were imprisoned, hundreds of them were executed and the rest were transported to POW camps.

Thousands of British, Dutch and Australian nationals perished in the railway's prisoner of war construction camps during World War II, and the railway's construction served as the inspiration for the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.

In 1951, I-Kuan Tao was banned in the PRC and many of the followers and leaders were persecuted: " Thousands of Yiguandao believers were sent to labor camps in the 1950s and forced to confess publicly that the practices were meant to deceive the populace.

Thousands of troops were based locally, in military camps.

Thousands of them were pressured to return by the Russian military already in December 1999, and the refugee camps were forcibly closed after 2001 by the new Chechen government of President Akhmad Kadyrov and the new Ingush government of President Murat Zyazikov.

Thousands more people were transferred by the JNA to prison camps elsewhere in Serb-controlled Croatia and in Serbia proper.