Magi shares what she saw in the Abu Dhabi prison for women

Tyrannical governments frequently gaol their political opponents.

In February 2009, a French court sentenced Ganczarski to 18 years in prison for the bombing.

The convicts were to appeal the sentence to the Supreme Court. The Court also sentenced three others to life imprisonment and two to 20 years.

By jailing them, the regime has made it clear that violence is the only avenue open to those seeking change.

Solitary confinement in D Block was seen as the harshest punishment, and it was never used for more than 48 hours at a time.

And today Egypt celebrates its former president Hosni Mubarak's journey to prison.

In recent months, Morocco had blatantly violated human rights by imprisoning and torturing Saharans living in occupied territory.

The case went to the local court, where the judge ruled it an accidental traffic disturbance and gave the driver a two year suspended sentence.

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A former South Korean police chief was sentenced to a 10 month in jail for falsely accusing the deceased former president of maintaining slush fund bank accounts under assumed names.

Simply put, governments can no longer afford to drain precious time and money that could be better spent elsewhere by locking up people for drug related offenses.

The human rights activist Liu Xiaobo has just been locked up for 11 years, drawing widespread condemnation.

BANGKOK Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui bien, Taiwan s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption.

The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, in response to this subparagraph, indicated that article 143 of the new draft Penal Code provides for a term of imprisonment of any person who recruits persons in opposition to a foreign State.

Saudi authorities arrested the men between September 23 and 26, 2011, then detained them in the General Investigations Prison in Damman for a year and a half before charging them and putting them on trial on April 29.

The reportedly maximum security Abu Zabaal facility to which he was transferred was said to be a more customary facility for prisoners sentenced to long terms.

Initially, Pussy Riot s troubles attracted little attention, but the hate campaign orchestrated by Orthodox activists and the threat of a seven year prison sentence for the women turned the tide.

In recent weeks, leaders of various opposition organizations in Georgia, such as Antisoros and Fairness, have been jailed on unfair accusations of plotting a coup on behalf of Russia.

The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government to immediately repeal Order 5 96, whose provisions allow for up to 20 years' imprisonment of anyone who drafts a constitution without official permission and otherwise criminalizes the right of freedom of expression and assembly.

In response to your Committee's question concerning paragraph 2 (a), article 143 calls for a prison sentence for anyone who, without permission from the competent authority, recruits persons against a foreign State or commits against such a State other hostile acts likely to expose the Great Jamahiriya to the danger of war.

Treatment Programme ΕΝ DRASI . It is the first programme against addiction in the context of the Greek correctional system at its core lies the Therapeutic Community of the Women's Prison of Korydallos that goes by the same name, as well as the Reception Centre for the Released, in the centre of Athens. Moreover, it implements programmes of self assistance in several prisons in Attica.

A related area for further study and guidelines might cover possible rights of a child when his or her mother was in prison, including, for example, whether the child had the right to be informed of the mother's incarceration, whether the child had visitation rights, whether the child had the right to be consulted about decisions concerning the mother.