Such treatment violated international law, which prohibited discrimination against prisoners on the basis of their political convictions.

Sustainable Convictions

What these kinds of exams cannot do and should not attempt to do is test people s political convictions.

But the possibility of violence should not distract us from noticing that fundamentalist convictions also motivate positive political activism.

Over the years, Puerto Rican political prisoners too had also suffered torture, including solitary confinement, pressure to renounce their political convictions and various forms of hardship.

Putin acts according to his convictions.

There were also reports of bureau members convincing friends (usually sharing the same political convictions) to go to vote and fill up the voting booths.

There have been few convictions for these crimes.

In practice, both parties are afraid of their convictions.

Bigamy and polygamy convictions by Republic of Tajikistan courts

The equivalent figures for the whole of 2003 were 12 cases, 68 indictments and 17 convictions, and for 2002, 13 cases, 17 indictments and 12 convictions.

But we are committed to doing so while remaining true to our political convictions, and without jeopardizing what makes France both strong and special a highly redistributive social model.

Three of the 36 convictions were later reversed on appeal.

It quashed a number of the convictions against both appellants.

On all convictions of murder, I imposed the mandatory death sentence.

On March 3, 1948, in the midst of the Greek Civil War, he was put to trial for his political convictions and sentenced to death multiple times by the right wing government.

(3) The purpose of the request for extradition is the criminal prosecution or punishment of the person whose extradition is requested on the grounds of race, sex, religion, nationality or political convictions

The five European countries cited above have entered formal reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to preserve their right to institute convictions at the appellate stage, without further review.

Furthermore, female convictions for non violent crimes were found to have decreased substantially, while female convictions for violent crimes rose startlingly, creating a unique trend not seen in the general prisoner population.9

Please provide information on the rate of arrests and convictions under this legislation.

For one thing, such convictions can always be faked by those determined to dissimulate.

The participants wore semi military uniforms, and a significant number allegedly had criminal convictions.

The victors of the last world war cherished their convictions no less than we do ours.

But in 2006 Yanukovich was charged with falsifying the very documents used to expunge his earlier convictions.

(a) Prisoners entering prison for the first time must be kept separate from those with prior convictions

Stops and searches conducted under counter terrorism powers in Europe have produced few terrorism charges and no convictions.

To be sure, we had shown the right convictions in words, but shamefully, we had failed to act.

Over the period of 1999 2003, a total of 93 criminal cases were instituted under art. 116 (battery), and convictions were handed down in 33 of them 73 criminal cases were brought under art. 117 (torture), and convictions resulted in 64 of the cases.

Its members premised their action on the belief that the imprisonment of Puerto Ricans for their political convictions and their pro independence and pro self determination activities was a repressive measure targeting Puerto Rico's independence movement in violation of international humanitarian law.

It used to be just 8.7 per cent of all convictions in 2005 in 2017, it's 32.6 per cent.

In the case of female prisoners specifically, it is even worse close to 70 per cent of all convictions.

The State Prosecutor indicted, tried and secured convictions of some persons implicated in the illicit operations of these banks.

It seems to me that our discussion reflects the opposite, that a better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

So better to shy away from, to ignore, the moral and the religious convictions that people bring to civic life.

But de Gaulle s vision of government resonated with the convictions of many French and, above all, with many public intellectuals.

The US went to war in Iraq on the basis of Bush s gut instincts and religious convictions, not rigorous evidence.

As expected, the rate of reported convictions, which varied significantly, was lower than the rate of reported investigations or prosecutions.

(b) The absence or small number of complaints, prosecutions and convictions relating to acts of racial discrimination in the country.

Neither has it contested the fact that, under domestic legislation, no remedies are available against convictions by the Supreme Court.

Where reasons have to be given, parents are not required to provide information on their own religion or philosophical convictions.

The court has been consistent with just a few trials left, it has issued no convictions for genocide apart from Srebrenica.

In the classroom, we have arguments on some of the most fiercely held moral convictions that students have about big public questions.

It has conducted fair trials and has provided a meaningful appellate process that has led to significant convictions and equally significant acquittals.

As many of the cases were new, no final decision had yet been taken, which was why there had been few convictions.

In the past five years, there had been virtually no convictions for racist crimes, which showed that such acts were extremely rare.