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The “enemy” would quickly come to his or her senses, and the public, unfamiliar with those imprisoned, would quickly lose interest.
Amnesty began identifying “prisoners of conscience” – people imprisoned for peacefully expressing their political, religious, or other conscientiously held beliefs, or for their cultural identity – all over the world.
Few will be ruined or imprisoned.
And then there are the huge costs for those imprisoned (many for non-violent crimes) and for their families and communities – costs that fall disproportionately on the poor, the uneducated, African-Americans and Latinos, and the mentally ill.
As with America’s Mafia, police zeal has imprisoned many Yakuza leaders.
A man imprisoned following the “Friday of Rage” (January 28, 2011) took the presidential oath in Tahrir on a “Friday of Power Transfer” (June 29, 2012).
In 2003, Rosneft became an oil giant by grabbing most of Yukos, after that oil firm’s head and chief shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arbitrarily prosecuted and imprisoned for embezzlement and tax evasion.
In its 39th Chapter, Magna Carta states: “No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or diseised [dispossessed], or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go against him, nor will we send against him, save by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.”
Six hundred have been imprisoned.
Several thousand were expelled from universities, and 80 were imprisoned following political trials.
Turkey has long been among the countries with the highest number of imprisoned journalists; but, in the months since the June election, the media have come under unprecedented pressure.
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
Last year Marian Zacharski -- who had been imprisoned in the U.S. as a Warsaw Pact spy in the l980s -- was named head of the Polish intelligence service.
As an inmate of an Egyptian prison, I discussed them with my fellow prisoners, many of whom were imprisoned as supporters of Egypt’s Islamic movement.
Russia had simply seized the opportunity presented to it by Lukashenko’s bizarre post-election crackdown, in which he used disproportionate force to clear the streets and imprisoned hundreds of activists, including seven of the presidential candidates who had run against him.
HONG KONG – The relatively sudden death of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, amounted to a great loss.
What struck me was that, apart from their being imprisoned, these young men seemed entirely normal, and their individual journeys toward extremism were not particularly informed by religion.
We don’t say that most people imprisoned for life committed a crime worthy of that sentence.
Last October, the CPJ reported that there were 76 journalists imprisoned in Turkey, including 61 who were in jail for their journalistic work.
But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death in this place is grimly appropriate, because it made me remember the imprisoned society of my youth that Thatcher did so much to set free.
In 2007, when he played a key role in the liberation of Bulgarian nurses imprisoned by Qaddafi, Libya’s leader was rewarded with what looked like a legitimacy prize: an official visit to Paris.
In 1975, Bachelet and her mother were imprisoned and tortured by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
In Turkey, more than 150 journalists have been imprisoned since the failed coup in July 2016, making the country the world’s biggest jailer of journalists.
At the same time, they became viable candidates without calling for revenge (Mujica was imprisoned and tortured during the 12-year military dictatorship, and rigged elections deprived AMLO of the presidency at least once).
The protests were brutally repressed, with participants rounded up, imprisoned, and reportedly raped and tortured, damaging the regime’s standing not only among Iranians, but also among the millions of young Arabs across the Middle East and North Africa who would soon rise up to demand their social and political rights.
Ordinary people – like the father of three who was imprisoned in the UK in September 2015 for accumulating £500,000 in gambling debts – do not enjoy such impunity.
Following Nasheed’s trial, his former defense minister, Colonel Mohamed Nazim, was also imprisoned (for 11 years) for offenses relating to weapons smuggling.
Even democratic India was placed under emergency rule from 1975 to 1977, and nonviolent critics of government policies were imprisoned.
WASHINGTON, DC – As pro-democracy protests sweep the Arab world, Belarus, Europe’s grim quasi-Soviet redoubt, has taken a turn for the worse since President Aleksander Lukashenko violently suppressed post-election demonstrations in December and imprisoned seven of the nine candidates who stood against him.
According to ancient myth, King Minos of Crete owed his hegemony to the Minotaur, a tragic beast imprisoned under Minos’s palace.
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