C1334 Between the Questions and Answers
The military lockdown was one of the more common measures, usually the locking up of the wrongdoer in a shuttered room, the locking up of doors and windows, the restriction of freedom, the mental torture more terrible than physical punishment.
The generals, who did not know the severity of the confinement, looked frightened, and wanted to beg for mercy, but did not know how to do so