Murder is a severe crime, punishable by life imprisonment.

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.

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.

5.3 The complainant reiterates that he has been sentenced to life imprisonment and for this reason will be arrested by the police.

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.

He was convicted at trial on 26 July 2005 and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.

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

A person organizing a group of persons with the aim to commit criminal offence under paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, shall be sentenced to minimal 10 years or long term imprisonment.

His delegation did not have any statistics on the number of cases in which death penalties had been commuted to life imprisonment or shorter prison sentences.

One hundred and sixty cases were decided in Punjab by the lower judiciary in which death sentence was awarded to 52 accused and life imprisonment to an additional 59.

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.

The sentence for both groups of offences will attract a maximum sentence on conviction on indictment of life imprisonment.

The sentence for both offences will attract a maximum sentence on conviction on indictment of life imprisonment.

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.

Under the terms of the two arrest warrants issued in 1997, the complainant had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and anti State activities and would be arrested if returned to Bangladesh.

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.

This idea to trend hashtags started in solidarity with Abdulhadi Khawaja, a prominent activist and opposition figure, who is sentenced to life imprisonment after being accused of attempting to overthrow the regime and who has been on hunger strike for weeks.

He also alludes to an article dated 10 July 2003 about an editor at the Frontier Post daily newspaper who was sentenced to life imprisonment for publishing a letter that was found to be critical of Islam.

At the courts' discretion, the death penalty could be commuted to life imprisonment or a shorter prison sentence if the accused confessed to the crime or otherwise cooperated in the proceedings.

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.

In addition, it observes that the complainant has provided no evidence, documentary or otherwise, either to the State party or to the Committee, to demonstrate that he had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.

Ms. Singhateh (Gambia) said that section 24 of the Gambian Constitution provided for legal aid in capital offence cases and cases punishable by life imprisonment.

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.

Others favored imprisonment and a life sentence.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2003.

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.

Counsel explains the deviation from the actual sentence on the basis that a 25 year sentence amounted to the same, as few could be expected to survive that length of time 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.