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Until recently, Duch was the only one imprisoned, after being exposed in 1999.
He might even offer some symbolic gestures, such as dissociating himself from objectionable political and media figures, or showing leniency towards those he has imprisoned for opposing him.
Once imprisoned abroad, such mothers, with no legal support or economic resources, often have no contact with their children back home.
In the 2000’s, the imprisoned leadership of the Group produced more than 25 books aimed at de-legitimizing political violence as a method for change.
Perhaps weirdest of all, there are imprisoned guerrillas who refuse to be set free, and a government that insists on liberating them, even against their will.
Clegg was tried, convicted, and imprisoned for murder but had his conviction quashed and was reinstated – and then promoted – in the army.
Savchenko has been on a hunger strike in Russia for more than two months to protest her patently illegal incarceration on charges even more ludicrous than those for which I was imprisoned.
The problem for the government of President Dilma Rousseff, who was herself imprisoned and tortured under the military regime, is that Brazilians know exactly what is at stake.
Since the first Chinese Web criminal, Lin Haiyin, was imprisoned for instigating subversive actions in 2000 to the recent arrest of writer Shi Tao, more than 100 independent intellectuals have been imprisoned for expressing their views.
Its robust reports on the death of Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded leader of the 1980’s who was imprisoned for objecting to the Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 1989, ultimately forced it to succumb to the power of the “Golden Shield.”
Now the BBC has broadcast interviews with Albanians who were imprisoned in secret UCK camps in Albania.
Indeed, I am more alive, I know, than the men who have imprisoned me here.
Since May, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina revamped her government’s war on drugs, an estimated 25,000 people have been arbitrarily imprisoned, and at least 200 have died in alleged shootouts.
But he was also threatened, imprisoned, attacked, and stripped of his citizenship in Belarus.
Big business won't stand up for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, singled out by the Kremlin as a political enemy and imprisoned since last year.
Now it has come to light that he and his henchmen illegally detained, tortured, and imprisoned many innocent businessmen during this campaign, simultaneously stealing their assets.
One of his most infamous clients was the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, who, upon winning the presidency of Ukraine, imprisoned his main rival, the previous prime minister, on trumped-up charges.
On the contrary, they will be more likely to think that people are being imprisoned for expressing views cannot be refuted by evidence and argument alone.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned ex-CEO of what was Russia’s largest oil company, is another example of a flawed, uncompromising person who challenged the flawed people in power and their unaccountability.
By day three, we will see journalists imprisoned and media shut down; day four, bloody reprisals against protesters by secret police; day five, arrests of key opposition figures.
A Trans-Atlantic TransitionAUSTIN – Despite many calls for a “new Atlanticism” or a “new transatlantic bargain,” the US-European relationship remains imprisoned by old habits.
It is with less obedient people that he has problems – say, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned for more than ten years after backing Putin’s political opponents;Anna Politkovskaya, brutally murdered in 2006 for her investigative reporting on his regime’s misdeeds in Chechnya; and Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblowing lawyer who died in prison in 2009 after being refused medical treatment.
But, although freeing a few people who were unjustly imprisoned for long periods is significant, it should not obscure the Russian government’s ongoing major human-rights violations at home and abroad.
Potential domestic donors fear that they could suffer the same fate as Khodorkovsky, who was the leading Russian supporter of human-rights groups until Putin imprisoned him for more than ten years.
A figure like Khodorkovsky is imprisoned when Putin decides he should be imprisoned.
Several high-level politicians and corporate owners and executives have been convicted and imprisoned.
Despite being imprisoned, Barghouti was recently elected to Fatah’s central council, and a number of others who spent time in Israeli prisons will join him.
One is Jibril Rajoub, imprisoned for 19 years and deported in the First Intifada, only to return to lead one of the security services after the PA was established.
If our tacit sense of the human condition can block our understanding of others, and if it is so fundamental to who we are that we cannot merely wish it away, are we utterly imprisoned in our own outlooks, unable to know others?
In 2003, Russia’s wealthiest oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky – a vocal advocate of democratization and tireless critic of Putin – was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of fraud and tax evasion, and his Yukos Oil Company was driven to bankruptcy, broken up, and sold off to Kremlin cronies.
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