Imprisonment
in sentence
219 examples of Imprisonment in a sentence
Like many gay men and lesbians in Africa, my choice was between economic freedom and mental
imprisonment.
But government opponents of all stripes run the risk of censorship, persecution, or wrongful
imprisonment.
One reason for the widespread respect felt for Nelson Mandela is that years of
imprisonment
did not embitter him.
It was and continues to be a critical check against the
imprisonment
of individuals without oversight by independent courts.
Moreover, unlike Mandela during his 27-year imprisonment, Suu Kyi has had her hopes raised – and dashed – before.
As shown by the exile of the former media tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinky, and the
imprisonment
of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, three fates await Putin’s enemies: exile, imprisonment, or the grave.
The
imprisonment
of Jokowi’s political ally, former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, for blasphemy against Islam has reinforced that pressure.
The law states that one could face a fine or up to three years
imprisonment
for “publicly and contrary to the facts” ascribing to the Polish people or government “responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes” or “other offenses” that constitute crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, or war crimes.
Operation Condor, the Riggs, Frei, and Prats affairs, and many other crimes are documented in the recent report on torture and political
imprisonment
written by the special commission established by President Ricardo Lagos.
Such an approach would reduce incarceration and recidivism rates – and drastically cut the onerous social, economic, and moral costs of
imprisonment.
Imprisonment
brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn this clarity as well.
The ability to begin to see more clearly than most the inner workings of the human soul is one of the few gifts that
imprisonment
can bestow.
He bore his
imprisonment
for the sake of his cause.
But those means ended up leading to the almost total suppression of any freedom of expression in Tunisia: a censored press,
imprisonment
of journalists, political trials, and arbitrary arrests within all circles of society, not merely those with ties to the Islamic movement.
Imprisonment
completed the evolution of the March combatants and left them free of illusions.
Even before his imprisonment, he faced constant police surveillance and harassment.
Essentially a free-trade treaty with additional political elements, its signing was postponed because of the
imprisonment
of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
At the same time, would-be jihadists have become aware of what would await them were they ever to return to Morocco:
imprisonment
for up to 15 years, in addition to ruthless police interrogations and severe detention conditions.
This work is already being carried out in places: in Sierra Leone, a country recovering from a brutal civil war, community-based paralegals are helping villagers to settle disputes peacefully; in Malawi, they are helping to reduce unnecessary
imprisonment.
And to top it off, he seems to be reveling in an escalating feud with US President Donald Trump’s administration over Turkey’s
imprisonment
of an American pastor and purchase of a Russian S-400 missile-defense system.
It reached this zenith by surpassing cash-strapped Russia - long its only rival as a mass
imprisonment
society - after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.
California's version, passed by citizen referendum in 1993 and ratcheted into place by state legislators in 1994, provides for the life
imprisonment
of any criminal with two previous serious convictions who is found guilty of any third felony.
Those who do not engage in criminal activity should not face arrest, imprisonment, or any other form of harassment or intimidation for doing their job.
The Healing of TaiwanBANGKOK – Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui-bien, Taiwan’s president from 2000 until 2008, to life
imprisonment
for corruption.
Bachelet’s father, an Air Force general, died of a heart attack from the torture he suffered during his
imprisonment
for opposing the military coup that brought Pinochet to power.
Imprisonment
is another favorite way for autocratic regimes to silence journalists who dare to speak truth to power.
So, while Tunisian human-rights activists protested MBS’s recent visit, many Arab activists had to refrain, despite strongly opposing the Saudi leader’s actions, in order to avoid
imprisonment.
And yet Mohamed Nasheed – the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, who was just sentenced to 13 years
imprisonment
for unnamed “terrorist offenses” by the military-backed government that overthrew him in 2012 – seems to have fallen off the world’s radar.
A new law banning prisoners from membership in political parties, coupled with his imprisonment, has cost Nasheed his position as President of the MDP.
Indeed, on Europe’s doorstep, the show trial and
imprisonment
of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is jeopardizing her country’s international economic standing.
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