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My journalism is hinged on three basic principles: naming, shaming and jailing.
Don't forget the key principles: naming, shaming and jailing.
Some C.O.s feel that they're jailing with you.
And this reminded me that poverty jailing in general, even outside the debtors' prison context, plays a very visible and central role in our justice system.
But in actuality, I find talking about jailing much less depressing than the alternative, because I think if we don't talk about these issues and collectively change how we think about jailing, at the end of all of our lives, we'll still have jails full of poor people who don't belong there.
But what's exciting to me is the thought that these stories can move us to think about jailing in different terms.
And so if starting with a few hundred of us in this room, we can commit to thinking about jailing in this different light, then we can undo that normalization I was referring to earlier.
Immediately after the stroke that killed his father at an exclusive summer resort villa on a remote mountain, Kim Jong-il consolidated political power by concentrating it in the hands of a very few diehard loyalists – and jailing, torturing, and killing anyone he viewed as a political opponent.
Indeed, the military, the bulwark of Mubarak’s regime, is now in charge in Egypt, and has been repressing, jailing, and killing protesters who dare to stand up.
Roman Polanski’s American DreamNEW YORK – What purpose is Switzerland serving by jailing the renowned Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski on a 30-year-old warrant?
And the benefits of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies.
Fining, threatening, or even jailing informal currency traders have not been particularly successful.
On the other hand, he has launched an equally ferocious campaign against political liberalization, arresting and jailing leading human-rights activists and cracking down on China’s once-vibrant social media.
Yet badgering or jailing journalists is no way to resolve what could be handled through a voluntary media council or independent ombudsman.
Putin responded to those he considers political enemies by arresting and jailing protesters, including the all-girl rock band Pussy Riot, following “show trials” (with the Olympics approaching, there have been recent “show pardons”).
Courts in countries as diverse as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala are indicting and even jailing prominent politicians and business people.
But President Suharto's regime began another press crackdown in the early 1970's, ultimately banning various media and jailing many journalists.
By jailing them, the regime has made it clear that violence is the only avenue open to those seeking change.
The jailing or silencing of opponents across Russia had produced a pervasive feeling not of fear, but of despondency – the sense that words and actions simply do not matter, and that speaking and mobilizing are therefore useless.
Does anyone doubt that the jailing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of Yukos oil, is politically motivated?
Many non-Chinese, including me, have signed a letter of protest against the jailing of Liu Xiaobo.
Indicting, prosecuting, convicting, and jailing those who carry out such destruction might prove to be a deterrent to others – similar to what is required to stop violence against persons.
In other words, the government eliminates the threat posed by leading opposition figures by jailing them or forcing them into exile, regardless of their prominence.
The dismissal and jailing of opponents has gone far beyond those who may have had a role in the putsch.
US President Bill Clinton admits that his landmark “three strikes” crime law in 1994 backfired by jailing so many people “there wasn’t enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs, and increase [their] chances when they came out.”
Instead, the UN continues to defer to Mugabe, who hides behind claims of sovereignty while jailing a defenseless populace.
Nevertheless, following a violently contested parliamentary election in 2005, in which more than 30 parties participated, Meles demonstrated open contempt for democratic pluralism and press freedom, jailing several journalists in recent years.
Germany’s New Power of the PurseBERLIN – Last week, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel interrupted his holiday on the North Sea to respond to Turkey’s jailing of a German human-rights activist.
For jailing Liu on the absurd charge of trying to overthrow the Chinese state is typical of the type of thinking found in the closed societies of twentieth-century communism, where the state asserted its absolute right to judge every thought and every thinker.
But the jailing of Liu also demonstrates in the starkest terms that China’s neglect of human rights is flowing to the rest of world alongside the mass of Chinese goods.