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219 examples of Imprisonment in a sentence
In the United Kingdom, for example,
imprisonment
for a homosexual act was based on ecclesiastical law – and only upon proof of a completed act of sodomy.
Every attempt to counter the regime’s brutality was met with repression, imprisonment, starvation, and forced exile.
But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and
imprisonment
of 13 reformers in March 2004.
The fundamental principle underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship.
Al Jazeera journalists are household names; they also suffer more harassment, imprisonment, and fatalities than their colleagues at other major news organizations.
That in no way excuses the extent of the killing and
imprisonment
that occurred.
Havel, who has inspired Liu as he has so many others who aspire to freedom, wrote a public letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao after Liu’s latest
imprisonment.
Though the European Court of Human Rights has ruled her
imprisonment
politically motivated, Yanukovych – whose power to pardon is absolute – has refused to countenance her release, desiring above all to prevent her candidacy in the Ukrainian presidential election due in 2015.
Egypt’s political elite, fearful of critical media coverage, defeat in fair elections, and even imprisonment, prefer the existing regime and oppose any significant reform.
But because arrest no longer meant execution but long imprisonment, dissidents acquired a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.
The result was Section 124A of the penal code, under which any person who used “words, signs, or visible representation … to excite disaffection against the government” could be charged with sedition and potentially sentenced to life
imprisonment.
My amendment would limit sedition charges to situations where an individual’s words or actions lead directly to the use of violence or incitement to violence, or where they constitute an offense – such as murder or rape – that, under the Indian Penal Code, is punishable by life
imprisonment.
Nor has the Trump administration commented on the fact that, in March 2017, the United Arab Emirates sentenced the Jordanian journalist Tayseer al-Najjar to three years
imprisonment
and a fine of 500,000 UAE dirhams (approximately $136,000) over a Facebook post.
Because anyone who engages with us is subject to possible prosecution and imprisonment, we have had no choice but to cut off relations with the dozens of Russian citizens we supported in their efforts to preserve some fragment of democracy in their country.
As Schrecker and Bambra and many others have shown, income inequality has profoundly damaging and far-reaching effects on everything from trust and social cohesion to rates of violent crime and imprisonment, educational achievement, and social mobility.
Constitutional and legal provisions that make practicing racism a crime punishable by
imprisonment
have great symbolic significance and help insure - indeed, create and secure - social peace.
Yet in the world’s largest democracy, India, sex between two men remains a crime punishable, according to statute, by
imprisonment
for life.
Of course, disrespect for the national flag is derided in most countries, and has been a criminal offense in India since 1971, with the adoption of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, which threatens whoever “mutilates, defaces, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon, or otherwise shows disrespect to” the Indian flag with
imprisonment.
Imprisonment, followed by recantation of violence, has become almost a trend in several jihadist groups, notably the 20,000-strong Egyptian Islamic Group, factions of the al-Jihad Organization in Egypt, and smaller groups like the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
The threats to media freedom in Europe are all too apparent: intimidation, attacks, and murder; legal harassment and wrongful imprisonment; and official controls, criminal libel laws, and intolerable political and commercial pressure on journalists.
Yet my freedom has left a bitter aftertaste, because my
imprisonment
ended only as the war against my country began.
The Philippines Joins the Asian RaceMANILA – In 1980, my father arrived in the United States to undergo a heart bypass, due to the rigors of his
imprisonment
by the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Publishing articles on the Internet can amount to “committing an offense,” and “radical views” may result in
imprisonment.
To see why, suppose that for each murderer executed (instead of, say, receiving life imprisonment), the number of murders is reduced by three, which is a much lower number than Ehrlich’s and some other estimates of the deterrent effect.
Why China's Falun Gong Movement Is ImportantBEIJING: Continuing suppression of members of Falong Gong, a movement whose supporters continue to “step forward” to respond to their leader’s call to “achieve consummation by facing
imprisonment
or death,” provides clear evidence that something new, if inexplicable, is happening in China.
When Obama visited Malaysia last year, he barely mentioned Anwar’s
imprisonment.
David Irving writes mendacious history, but his prosecution and
imprisonment
in Austria for “Holocaust denial” would have horrified Mill.
And Rosneft, even more than Gazprom, has pioneered the modus operandi of the Putin system since 2004, when it took over the assets of Yukos, following the
imprisonment
of the company’s head, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Putin opponent, on fraud and embezzlement charges.
Second, Burma’s generals know that they face a stark choice: either maintain power or risk imprisonment, exile, and possible death.
Free Speech, Muhammad, and the HolocaustThe timing of Austria’s conviction and
imprisonment
of David Irving for denying the Holocaust could not have been worse.
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