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"They swore, crossed themselves, and begged not to be sent back," he told the Prague Post newspaper.Czech police were launching a joint inquiry into the case with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They were kept for weeks in solitary confinement in cell-like rooms. Some were denied access to lavatories, he said.Students were terrified of being sent back to the academy after police questioning, he said. Children were held against their will, and deprived of psychological and medical help, Mr Netik said. Charges could also be brought against the teenagers' parents for imprisoning them in the Czech Republic against their will, said Petr Netik, head of Brno's organised-crime police unit.Staff allegedly used a range of punishments against pupils, including solitary confinement, handcuffing, enforced listening to audio and video tapes and threatening with a guard dog.The academy, which opened last January and charged $1,790 (pounds 1,072) a month, held 57 pupils between 15 and 18. The Morava Academy in Brno was shut this week after police arrested the managers, Glenda and Steven Roach, both former police officers from Utah, as well as two Czech guards. All four could face between two and eight years in prison for allegedly violating human rights, torturing and illegally imprisoning pupils.

The landlord only became interested when no more rent was forthcoming because the account had run dry.. CZECH POLICE have closed a private school for troubled teenagers linked to a child- reform programme based in the United States after its American managers were arrested and charged with violations of human rights. His overfilling mailbox would be occasionally tidied up - by whom, no one knows.All the bills were paid by direct debit from the account of Mr Dircks' mother, who still lives in an old people's home. Spread out in the skeleton's lap was a television listings magazine opened at the date 5 December 1993. Mr Dircks was 43 years old at the time.His two immediate neighbours on either side had moved out four years ago. The others had heard rumours that Mr Dircks had also moved to a home.

The box had blown a fuse, but the lights on the Christmas tree in front of the window were still flickering. But no one thought to ring his bell.What the neighbours did not know is that Mr Dircks had been dead all this time. That was established this week when the landlord turned up to collect the rent, only to discover a skeleton seated in front of the television set. They also knew him to be a grumpy loner, embittered by his divorce and crippled after a hip operation. His name would nevertheless go on the rota for the household chores, and invariably he would miss his turn "How inconsiderate can people get?" they would mutter. The US rejected the concept of compensation.The US and South Korea, Mr Kartman said, "both believe there is compelling evidence for nuclear-related activities"..