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In fact, just last month, students at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University were arrested on charges of sedition, for using “anti-Indian” slogans in their protests against the execution of the convicted terrorist Afzal Guru.
But, given that the Saenuri Party is traditionally pro-business, Park limits her reform pledges to harsher sentences for convicted chaebol executives and new restrictions on circular equity investment through chaebol affiliates.
Voters complain that outgoing President Lee Myung-bak’s pro-business government – which issued pardons to scores of convicted chaebol executives – gave up on distributive justice and participatory democracy.
Furthermore, it proposes 25-year prison sentences for those convicted of exposing or possessing state secrets.
First, Lula is in prison for a relatively trivial offense (at least for now), and he was convicted by a lower court.
Will it really be necessary for Ukrainians to repeat the Orange Revolution by again gathering in their millions to shame Yanukovych (a twice convicted violent felon before he entered politics) to change course?
Here, it seems clear that UNMO’s political interests have been allowed to dictate that the country’s key opposition leader should be tried on charges that no real democracy that embraces the rule of law would even consider leveling, and convicted on evidence that no truly independent court would accept.
Ireland has been tried and convicted on non-existent evidence.
To be convicted of a drug-related crime often means losing custody of one’s children.
Some American lawyers are now using such a “genetic defense” as mitigation for convicted murderers.
Clegg was tried, convicted, and imprisoned for murder but had his conviction quashed and was reinstated – and then promoted – in the army.
Indeed, some Muslim countries amputate the hands of convicted thieves in public.
At the same time, in the face of an alarming increase in the number of terrorist attacks, Manmohan Singh’s government has also indulged in a heavy-handed response to suspected Islamist terrorists, who are hauled off on flimsy evidence and killed before they can be convicted of any crime.
They were convicted for financial crimes in a 2004 trial, but in August faced a fresh round of charges, including tax evasion and embezzlement.
Just hours before Thaksin returned to Bangkok, Thailand’s Election Commission convicted the speaker of the parliament’s lower house of fraud after he paid civil servants to campaign on behalf of the party.
If it passes, the measure would commute the sentences of the 1,267 people currently on death row in the country, including 900 convicted of drug-related crimes.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena recently said that his country would end a 42-year moratorium on executions and begin killing people convicted of drug crimes.
I support executing some people convicted of murder because – and only because – I believe that it deters other murders.
The underlying premise that Dawkins seems to be failing to grasp is straightforward: It is better to let ten criminals go free than one innocent person be convicted.
To this end, Moon has vowed to separate politics from business, including by ending the long-standing practice of granting government pardons to convicted chaebol bosses – a move that most immediately affects Samsung Group Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who is currently jailed and standing trial for bribery and embezzlement.
A general's trialBUCHAREST: As Chile’s former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest outside of London, awaits a final decision on whether he is to be extradited to Spain to face charges of having committed crimes against humanity, Romania has tried and convicted one of its own military leaders for his role in the massacre of civilians in the city of Timisoara ten years ago.
Navalny’s candidacy received a recent boost when he became a convicted criminal, following a trial that resembled Khodorkovsky’s in terms of blatant political manipulation.
The tribunal convicted him of the “spread of terror,” a massive war crime, and of murdering civilians in Sarajevo, essentially labeling him a terrorist, not unlike those who are destroying the lives of Muslims, Yazidis, and Christians in Iraq and Syria today.
First, there is the spate of neo-Nazi attacks on foreigners, which hit the headlines again recently when three young skinheads were convicted and sentenced for killing a black Mozambican man.
Several high-level politicians and corporate owners and executives have been convicted and imprisoned.
Elmer was quickly convicted of violating Switzerland’s bank-secrecy law, but few journalists have demanded that Assange be prosecuted for his role in the affair.
Is it true that men are convicted of rape in Sweden on the sole basis of a woman’s allegations?
But, like in many other countries, I can be convicted of rape if I have sex with a sleeping or unconscious person.
But, in view of the diversity of the young people convicted so far, it would be a mistake to say that these riots are the result of Muslim radicalization.
Recall a letter from the convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef, which was found in his Islamabad safe house after he was arrested in February 1995.
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