Convicted
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When the court finally convicts Bo – and he is certain to be
convicted
– he will probably face a prison term similar to that of former Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu, who received 18 years, or former Beijing Party Secretary Chen Xitong, who was sentenced to 16 years.
In Defense of ShariaThis week, an Islamic court at Funtua, in Katsina State, in northern Nigeria rejected the appeal of a woman
convicted
of having sex out of wedlock.
The spread of Islamic law in Nigeria--since late 1999 ten of the country's 36 states have adopted Sharia as their public law--has provoked a sharp outcry against the severe punishments it levies, including amputation for thieves and death by stoning for woman
convicted
of adultery.
Sharia courts contend that unless four witnesses catch a man in the act, he cannot be
convicted.
This standard of proof is so difficult to meet that men simply are not
convicted.
Kids (like Oliver Twist) were punished in ways designed to break them; poor people
convicted
of relatively minor offenses were transported to Australia, or given publicly humiliating forms of punishment; police had unchecked and violent power over the poor.
The one that gained the most publicity was the execution in Georgia of Troy Davis, who had been
convicted
of the 1989 murder of Mark McPhail, an off-duty police officer.
It is quite common for family members of the victim to watch the execution of the person
convicted
of killing their relative, and afterwards to pronounce themselves satisfied that justice has been done – it happened again with the execution of Troy Davis.
In the landmark Foca case, the ICTY
convicted
three Bosnian Serbs of rape, torture, and enslavement of Muslim women in 1992.
Estrada literally defined plunder: as a senator in the early 1990’s, he was a member of the congress that crafted the law under which he was
convicted.
Justice Delayed, but Not DeniedLONDON – Last week, the former dictator General Jorge Videla was
convicted
and sentenced to life in prison for his role in Argentina’s “dirty war” of the 1970’s, including the torture and execution of unarmed prisoners.
Goto, a journalist who traveled to Syria last October to try to secure Yukawa’s release, will supposedly be spared if Japan secures Jordan’s release of a
convicted
terrorist.
Abu Bakar Ba’asyir is a radical Muslim cleric who was
convicted
of blessing the original 2002 Bali bombing, and suspected by some of providing much more.
Gilani had been
convicted
weeks earlier of contempt of court, after he refused to comply with a court order directing him to write to Swiss authorities and demand that they reopen a money-laundering investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari that had been launched in the mid-1990’s.
Under Pakistan’s constitution, a
convicted
felon cannot serve in the national and provincial assemblies.
Already, he has ensured that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny was
convicted
of embezzlement, giving the government an excuse to bar him from the ballot.
He was back in prison three years later,
convicted
of manslaughter.
Then, on December 5, the US Congress voted unanimously to adopt the Taylor Force Act, which blocks aid to the Palestinian Authority from 2018 to 2024, unless the PA stops paying monthly salaries and other benefits to the families of killed or
convicted
Palestinian militants.
Moreover, almost everyone arrested for endangering state security is
convicted.
Prosecuted for inciting subversion, Yue was ultimately
convicted
of "making a false accusation."
Although some of those
convicted
of endangering state security are charged with violent crimes--for example, two Tibetans were recent sentenced to death for "inciting separatism" and setting off bombs--the great majority involve non-violent speech and association.
Indeed, one of the rights for which suffragists fought was the right to be
convicted
of one’s own crimes.
And those
convicted
of receiving illicit money are obligated to pay it back.
Russia’s Lawless LegalityMOSCOW – Colonel Yuri Budanov is a
convicted
rapist and murderer.
So the authorities’ aim seems clear: put Khodorkovsky and Lebedev away for a much longer time – more than 20 years if they are
convicted.
For although Gagik Tsarukyan was
convicted
of a sexual crime in the Soviet era, two years ago Armenia’s courts exonerated him by vacating the decision of the Soviet court.
Leaving Lockerbie BehindCAMBRIDGE – Last month, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer
convicted
in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, died in his home in Tripoli.
In fact, most experts still believe that he was
convicted
using fraudulent evidence, and that the CIA bribed witnesses.
And, of course, the prisoners in Alcatraz had been tried in a court of law, defended by lawyers whose communications with them were privileged, and duly
convicted
of their crimes.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
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