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Imprisoned in sentence

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Dictators who demand amnesty as a condition for leaving power are somewhat like airplane highjackers who insist on freedom for themselves and imprisoned comrades as the price for releasing hostages.
But where is the regime's renunciation of the authority to have imprisoned them in the first place?
His reward for exposing this crime was to be imprisoned and mistreated until he died in mysterious circumstances.
Likhachev was showing the Pope an album about the Solovetsy camp where Likhachev had been imprisoned for “religious propaganda”.
The album contained photographs of the windows of the old monk’s cells to which the Soviets had affixed bars; for years these cells imprisoned Catholic clergymen, such as those arrested after State Prosecutor Nikolay Krylenko proclaimed the Catholic Church “an enemy of the people” in 1917.
In such a state, initiative, especially political initiative, is worse than futile; it is a crime, as the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former oil tycoon, has demonstrated.
The fourth initiative also concerned foreign affairs: the freeing of the six Bulgarian nurses imprisoned in Libya on false charges of infecting children deliberately with HIV/AIDS.
In Iran, members of so-called “house churches” (independent assemblies of Christians who meet in private homes because of their fear of oppression) are rounded up and imprisoned.
Yes, they have seen oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky imprisoned on questionable charges, and inconvenient journalists beaten or killed.
Members of the group – including its chair, physicist Yuri Orlov – were imprisoned.
Mandela’s approach showed that orderly and inclusive transitions are possible, and that previously suppressed and imprisoned freedom advocates can transform themselves to form a legitimate and effective government.
Opposition figures have been persecuted, dismissed, kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured in police stations and jails.
But policymakers seem to have forgotten that when people are fleeing for their lives, when their family and friends have been brutalized, imprisoned, or killed, no democratic government’s deterrent can match the fear that drives them to try their luck on the high seas, packed into rickety boats.
Why the government first imprisoned him and then released him less than 24 hours later remains a mystery.
The Council’s excuse is a smokescreen, and simultaneously kowtows to Chinese totalitarianism and insults those Chinese writers who have been imprisoned, banned, or forced into exile merely for writing what their conscience demands.
Since then, democratic freedoms have been curtailed, the former prime minister and co-leader of the revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko, has been imprisoned, and President Viktor Yanukovych’s regime has become internationally isolated.
Whatever one thinks of Tymoshenko, she was not imprisoned for any ostensible crimes she committed while in power.
Thus, while ordinary Politburo members have been targeted in the past (three have been imprisoned), members of its Standing Committee have been off limits.
Among those fighters was Abedi’s father, a longtime member of the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, whose functionaries were imprisoned or forced into exile during Qaddafi’s rule.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the billionaire owner of Yukos Oil and a possible rival for political power to Putin, was stripped of his company, imprisoned, and later exiled.
Hundreds of senior generals in the People’s Liberation Army have been purged and imprisoned on corruption charges.
Consider the example of Zhou Yongkang, China’s long-time internal security chief, who has been imprisoned on charges of bribery, corrupting state power (for allegedly having too many mistresses), and leaking state secrets.
Members of his family have also been imprisoned.
When the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines flight to Dhaka Airport in Bangladesh in 1977, Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda not only paid the $6 million ransom; he also resorted to the “extralegal measure” of handing over imprisoned members of the faction.
Instead of giving the group what they wanted – the release of 53 militants imprisoned in Israel and four other countries – the Israeli Army launched Operation Thunderbolt, rescuing the hostages at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport.
Afghanistan’s Terrorized WomenKABUL – Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws’ dungeon for seven months.
This includes people like Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman imprisoned for sending newspaper articles to her husband in the US, Tohti Tunyaz, a Ph.D. student in Japan accused of publishing "sensitive documents," and Tursunjan Amat, a poet who recited a pro-independence poem at a public gathering in Urumqi.
Thousands of people are imprisoned for such "evil cult" activities.
Dozens of leaders of opposition groups--most unknown to the outside world--were imprisoned in recent years.
The right not to be enslaved, not to be physically assaulted, not to be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned, or executed?
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