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“était interdit de parler” in English
4 examplesIl lui était interdit de parler.
He was forbidden to speak.
Cela me rappelle que pendant la dictature de Franco, dans mon pays, l'Espagne, il était interdit de parler basque, catalan ou galicien.
I seem to recall that during the Franco dictatorship in my home country of Spain, it was forbidden to speak in Basque, Catalan or Galician.
Avant notre rencontre, les autorités pénitentiaires nous ont tous deux avertis qu'il était interdit de parler du fait qu'on lui avait attribué le prix Sakharov.
Before our meeting, we were both warned separately by the prison authorities that we were forbidden to talk about the fact that he had been awarded the Sakharov Prize.
Emprisonné dans des conditions effroyables dans les prisons équatoguinéennes, il lui était interdit de parler à quiconque, son eau et sa nourriture étaient rationnées, et il était enfermé dans une cellule de 1, 5 mètre sur 1, 5.
Imprisoned under terrible conditions in the jails in Equatorial Guinea, he was not allowed to talk to anyone, his food and water were rationed and he was in a cell measuring 1.5 m by 1.5 m.
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