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It campaigned with increasing effectiveness against political killings, torture and arbitrary
imprisonment.
With Xi’s anti-corruption campaign in full swing, and the example of Bo Xilai’s
imprisonment
serving as a warning to the new president’s adversaries (no matter how senior they are), Chinese officials at all levels, it is widely believed, are likely to toe the line.
In Hungary, for example, the penal code calls for two years
imprisonment
for personal possession by a drug-dependent person.
Another two Tibetan activists, Tenzin Phuntsok and Kangtsuk, received a suspended death sentence, and a third, Dawa Sangpo was sentenced by the same court to life
imprisonment.
But beyond the grim fates of the Tibetans that have now been sentenced by the Tibetan court to death or life
imprisonment
for the protests that took place a year ago, we are also concerned about the hundreds of other detained protesters who have yet to be tried by the Municipal Court in Lhasa.
It will make Bo, an ally of Zhou and a former Politburo member who was sentenced to life
imprisonment
for corruption, look like a petty thief.
Can anyone imagine the workings of the entire French state – the police, the security services, the military, and the bureaucracy – being coordinated to secure the
imprisonment
of a lone individual?
Prof. Ibrahim was sentenced to seven years
imprisonment.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and
imprisonment
is shameful.
But, whatever embarrassment he may now be feeling is certainly a better fate than that meted out to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, another Russian oligarch with political ambitions, who is now languishing in his eighth year of
imprisonment
since boldly challenging Vladimir Putin’s ideas about how Russia should be run.
Although he claims that he will not leave politics completely, he now looks like just another oligarch who must choose between capitulation, emigration, and
imprisonment.
In 1998, these other acts were clarified to mean false imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution of a group, enforced disappearance of persons, and apartheid.
Of course, malicious
imprisonment
is by no means uniquely American.
The law stipulates terms of
imprisonment
or a fine for anyone who “contracts,” “solemnizes,” or arranges a marriage with a girl under 18.
In 2012, the Chongqing region’s Communist Party boss, Bo Xilai – a prominent and charismatic figure who was widely expected to join the elite ranks of the Politburo Standing Committee – was abruptly removed from his post and subsequently sentenced to life
imprisonment
for corruption.
The relevant wording of the legislation is worth citing:“Whoever publicly and untruthfully assigns responsibility or co-responsibility to the Polish Nation or the Polish State for Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich (…) or for other crimes constituting crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, or in some other way markedly diminishes the responsibility of the true perpetrators of these crimes is subject to a fine or
imprisonment
for up to three years.”
To break the cycle of poverty, a country needs to invest in its children’s future, not in the
imprisonment
of 2.3 million people a year, many for non-violent crimes that are symptoms of poverty.
Now Liu has been sentenced to 11 years
imprisonment
for much the same crime: initiating Charter 08, perhaps the bravest attempt yet to chart a peaceful way forward to freedom for China.
In addition to imprisonment, he missed two years of his playing career, and millions of dollars in earnings.
Megrahi was convicted of murdering 270 people, and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Instead, they are now about to enter their second year of
imprisonment.
Politically motivated trials started to increase ten years ago with the
imprisonment
of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was head of Yukos, Russia’s largest privately owned oil company, after he ignored warnings not to support Putin’s opponents.
But, on October 23, the Russian Supreme Court for the first time officially rejected an ECHR decision, in a case concerning Alexei Pichugin, a former deputy to Khodorkovsky and head of Yukos’s security service, who had been sentenced to life
imprisonment
for fraud.
Its American captain, Peter Willcox, and his international crew were searched and charged with piracy – a crime that carries a sentence of up to 15 years
imprisonment
and confiscation of property.
Yet it did not want to repeat the experience of the Zacharias Moussaoui trial, in which, after many propagandistic appeals from the dock, the alleged twentieth September 11, 2001, hijacker was finally convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Beyond the tanking economy, Putin’s critics have been subject to arrest, imprisonment, and, in the cases of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the politician Boris Nemtsov, murder.
After her return she still had to endure
imprisonment
and trumped-up murder charges.
Moreover, Tarullo cited criminal prosecution and
imprisonment
of individuals as the most effective way to deter illegal conduct, such as breaches of antitrust law.
The Last Totalitarian Country in EuropeThis country of ten million inhabitants has been for over 11 years ruled by Alexander Lukashenka for whom the governance means extensive abuse of the basic human and citizens’ rights on daily basis, removal and
imprisonment
of his opponents and journalists and deception of people by mass media under his control.
It offers integration by default within the differentiated space of various communities – a sort of
imprisonment
by civilization, Sen would say.
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