In four cases, death sentences were reduced to imprisonment after appeal.

Between 2002 and 2004, 32 persons on death row had had their sentences commuted.

Those generals should have been handed life sentences like Mubarak, said Zakaria Abd al Aziz, the former elected head of the Judges Club.

The police officers who had committed the acts of torture had been sentenced to varying periods of imprisonment.

Eighteen other defendants were sentenced to three years in prison and three years on probation, in addition to a similar fine.

Violations to the provisions of Law 626 1994, chapter VIII are sanctioned with imprisonment from 2 weeks to 6 months.

Violations to the provisions of Law 626 1994, chapter VIIbis are sanctioned with imprisonment up to 6 months.

A dozen prominent opposition politicians have been sentenced to prison, including former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the former interior minister, Yuri Lutsenko.

Ms. Ragnarsdóttir (Iceland) said that all cases involving prison sentences, no matter how minor, could be appealed.

Within the Russian judiciary, Chuvashov was one of the rare judges with the courage to rule against powerful local government officials as well as high ranking officers of the interior ministry. Indeed, he dared to send a number of them to prison.

Political violence that creates the impression of mere street crime is never easy to prove, unlike jail terms of several years, and therefore it does not receive due attention from the world.

In Beijing millions of inhabitants were ordered to witness some 30,000 sentencing and execution rallies during the early 1950 s.

By now, hundreds of those responsible for atrocities in the former Yugoslavia in the wars of the 1990 s have been held accountable and have served or are still serving judicially ordered prison sentences.

Kahn was sentenced to 10 years in prison and Rosile was sentenced to four and half years in prison.

Of the more than 220,000 people arrested on drug charges since Calderón took office, three quarters have been released. Only 5 of the remaining 60,000 or so have been tried and sentenced.

Although Mubarak and his interior (security) minister, Habib al Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran Egypt s apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted.

For example, journalists have been imprisoned for producing articles and books at the behest of an alleged terrorist organization called Ergenekon, whose existence has yet to be confirmed, despite years of investigation.

He was sentenced to 15 years in jail while his wife Dr Zahra Sammak ( Zahrasammak) was sentenced to 5 years.

Similarly, Claude Barfield has documented how Colombia has been intimidated into making it a crime (with prison terms of up to five years) to engage in acts that undermine the right to organize and bargain collectively.

146 of them received sentences over 10 years of imprisonment 7 10 years for 313 under 7 years for 2468, and probation for 292.

For that, he was taken to court and threatened with imprisonment.

The court ordered life sentence for Pınar Selek.

Matsushita was sentenced to two years in jail.

He was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison.

Murder is a severe crime, punishable by life imprisonment.

He said, I asked to see the prison psychiatrist.

If convicted, Karoui faces up to three years in prison.

He was prosecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in prison in 1974.

In July 2011, she was sentenced to seven years in prison.

The penalty for these offences is five years imprisonment.

Both were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

There are no Greek Cypriots currently serving sentences in the north, and 24 Turkish Cypriots are serving sentences in the south.

Chinese critics of the government, or even those who simply wish to report mistakes or wrongdoing, are silenced with a heavy hand beatings in police stations, draconian jail sentences, or even murder.

Four of them, sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment, had already served 20 years, while one detainee had been sentenced to 5 and later to 20 additional years, and another one to 13 years.

In the end he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

On the same day he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

At the end of his trial, Mr. Djerboue was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment.

See section 44 of the Federal Act on the Enforcement of Prison Sentences and Preventive Measures in Connection with Imprisonment of 1969 (Enforcement of Sentences Act) (1) Every prisoner who is physically able to work has the obligation to work. (2) Prisoners obligated to work shall perform the work assigned to them.

Persons sentenced to life imprisonment or long prison terms for the commission of crimes shall serve their sentences in specialized prison facilities under special regime arrangements.

In July 2004, Muhannad Qutaysh was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour while Haytham Qutaysh was given a term of four years in prison with hard labour

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