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

Twelve members were sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in 2008.

The Court considered that a sentence of one year's imprisonment was in proportion to the gravity of the offence.

After a perfunctory closed trial, they were sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively.

He was found guilty of belonging to the terrorist group Al Gihad , and was sentenced, without possibility of appeal, to 25 years' imprisonment.

She wondered whether the death penalty had officially been abolished for those crimes, or whether life imprisonment was merely an alternative.

A private individual found guilty of publishing or spreading fake news can face a prison term of up to five years.

Earlier this year, they had been sentenced to 11 and 10 years in prison respectively.

It is illegal to impose a life sentence or the death penalty on a convicted child under the Juvenile Code.

Chen had been sentenced to four years and three months in jail because he alienated corrupt local officials.

Two young men were recently sentenced to prison for trying to set fire to the artist s home.

Furthermore, in a separate case, the accused was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment for forgery of banknotes.

Life imprisonment had only recently been introduced into the Criminal Code, primarily as an alternative to capital punishment.

In January 2005 there had been discussions in Parliament on abolishing the death penalty and replacing it with long prison sentences.

Projects ranged from economic diversification to the reform of legislation governing child and family welfare and a study on alternatives to custodial sentencing.

The incident came two days after the case of Khaled Said ended with a seven year verdict against the informer and the police corporal responsible for his death.

On 23 June, Greste was found guilty by the court, and sentenced to seven years in prison.

For this, he was detained for inciting subversion of state power, and in February was sentenced to seven years in jail.

In fact, he confessed to 31 other counts covering the same underlying acts, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Soon after Obama left China, two other writers, Huang Qi and Tan Tiandun, were sentenced to prison.

In less than a week, Pasqua was sentenced to three years in jail for illegal arms trading with Angola.

Egyptian blogger Zeinobia reports that Syrian blogger Tariq has been sentenced to jail for three years for criticising security authorities.

In his view, both the reductions in prison terms and the pardons granted to the torturers violate the right of victims to obtain effective justice.

Arrested in 2003, they were sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison on charges of tax fraud.

In its judgement of 30 September 1998, the Supreme Court decided to reduce the Civil Guards' prison sentence to one year.

The Appeals Chamber dismissed Niyitegeka's appeal in its entirety and affirmed the sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of his life which had been imposed by the Trial Chamber.

In sentencing him to life imprisonment, the tribunal said that the dictatorship's state terrorism against political dissidents was a form of genocide.

In 2004, she was arrested and, in 2006, sentenced to six and a half years on embezzlement and tax fraud charges.

Ba asyir was released for the simple reason that the law required it he had completed his 30 month sentence.

The political character of the performance was studiously ignored, and the verdict of the judge, who sentenced the trio to two years in prison, proved to be the show trial s scandalous dénouement.

A_AlAthbah The First Instance Court in Qatar sentences Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Deeb to life in prison for poems it considered insulting to the Amir and which called for over throwing his rule.

He was tried in secret and, on 6 August 2004, convicted. Only a portion of the judgement has been made public. Mr. Xu was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

Khawaja brought attention to the struggle of his people and the government's decision to give him a life sentence 'for attempting to overthrow the regime' was faced with condemnation from the international community.

Having been found guilty the conviction rate in China is around 98 , and is even higher in Tibet, so the verdict was never in doubt he was sentenced to five years in prison.

Her father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, is a prominent human rights activist who was arrested on April 9, 2011 and sentenced two months later, along with other opposition leaders, to life imprisonment.

On 21 June, General Leopold Okulicki, former Commander of the Polish Home Army was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in Moscow for the alleged sabotage against the Soviet Army.

The Committee is concerned at the very low minimum age of criminal responsibility, which is set at 8, and at the possibility that a person under 18 years can be sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.

It comes despite an outcry from NGOs globally less than two months after his brother in law Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for establishing a website.

Lawyers for Mubarak and al Adly will appeal their life sentences, and many Egyptians believe that they will receive lighter sentences.

On November 9, Nabil Hajlaoui, an agronomist from Sidi Bouzid, was sentenced to two months in prison following his criticism of the Tunisian military institution.

Navalny was registered as a candidate in the election and joined the campaign a day after being released from jail, following his conviction and five year prison sentence in a completely fabricated case.

All the defendants were acquitted, except for one man, Mohamed Mirza was sentenced to 10 years!

The Immigration Service concluded that, in the light of the nature of the offences committed by, and the severity of the prison sentence imposed on, the author, his personal circumstances did not outweigh the arguments for his expulsion.

He was convicted on 18 April 1977 on two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences by a jury trial presided over by Federal District Judge Benson in Fargo, North Dakota.

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