Fining them or jailing them was too much already.

Some Muslims do not fast ... prison time and fines await those who eat in public.

Not denying justice but diverting cases to the most cost effective procedures that in many instances also offer victims more than court based solutions in other words, diversion.

Making that happen requires someone willing to face opprobrium, jail, and a life of surveillance.

In a recent case C.C. 774 04 (14.3.05) The State of Israel v. Genadi Boslovitz et al., the sentences imposed on the defendants were strict.

Civil and criminal penalties, including significant fines and imprisonment, can be imposed for breaches of the WMD Act.

The camps' revolutionary councils wielded supreme power and any suspicion of dissent was publicly and brutally punished, often with torture and imprisonment.

It affirmed the sentences of 10 years' imprisonment and 25 years' imprisonment imposed by the Trial Chamber on Elizaphan Ntakirutimana and Gérard Ntakirutimana, respectively.

Also excluded were Articles 219 and 222, which dealt with the abduction of a woman, consensual or through fraud, alluding to the crime of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

The trial focused on the attacks on the army barracks, prison and SNB (National Security Service) building, as well as the occupation of the Hokimyat (Mayor's Office).

(b) The suppression of freedom of thought, expression, information, association, assembly and movement through fear of arrest, imprisonment, execution, expulsion, house demolition and other sanctions

Tsutsumi pleaded guilty, and on October 27, 2005, the Tokyo District Court sentenced him to 30 months in prison, suspended for 4 years, and a fine of 5 million yen.

Israel continued the illegal detention and imprisonment in its jails of thousands of Palestinians, many of whom had been severely harassed, physically abused and even tortured.

All NLD offices remain shut, with the exception of its headquarters in Yangon, and political party members are consistently liable to politically motivated prosecution and incarceration.

(b) The continuing abuse of the legal system through arbitrary detentions, imprisonment and surveillance of persons who try to exercise their freedom of expression, assembly and association, and by harassment of their families

(c) Improve the conditions of detention and imprisonment of persons below 18, notably by establishing special institutions for them with conditions suitable to their age and needs

In a 2004 decision the Congolese High Military Court had handed down severe sentences, including the death penalty and life imprisonment, to officers in the armed forces convicted of terrorist acts.

As in the case of undeclared cross border cash transactions, penalties ranged from fines and or seizure and confiscation of the instruments to imprisonment.

(a) To abolish by law, as soon as possible, the death penalty and life imprisonment without possibility of release for those under the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the offence

(a) To abolish by law, as soon as possible, the death penalty and life imprisonment without possibility of release for those under the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the offence

In article 148, which deals with the crimes of kidnapping and false imprisonment, section I, was changed to include the companion in the list of possible victims of these crimes.

Such violations of the rights of the people of Western Sahara were a direct result of the state of siege imposed by the Moroccan authorities who were trying to repress the Saharan people through fear, brutality, rape, imprisonment and summary trials.

Secondly, with regard to enforcement, we are instituting strict penalties for violators of traffic laws. They include fines, the suspension or revocation of driver's licenses and imprisonment. Stricter traffic laws and regulations are also being enforced on our roads.

Sanctions can take several forms, including administrative fines against businesses and natural persons criminal sanctions, including fines and imprisonment and recovery of compensatory damages by victims of a cartel.

Several speakers noted the support of their Government to the principle of restorative justice as an important alternative to prosecution and imprisonment and as a means of holding offenders accountable in a manner that was responsive to the needs of offenders, victims and the community.

Making that happen requires someone willing to face opprobrium, jail, and a life of surveillance. I wish Julian Assange were a better person, but better people are not rising to the challenge.

Al Jazeera journalists are household names they also suffer more harassment, imprisonment, and fatalities than their colleagues at other major news organizations.

Last spring, Saudi Arabia sentenced blogger Raif Badawi to 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes for insulting Islam after he launched Saudi Liberals, a website hosting content critical of the country s senior religious figures and its religious police.

The Conference called on all states to respect the rights of Muslim minorities in non Member States, not to infringe upon their freedom and religious belief or subject them to detention or tyrannical imprisonment, and, when tackling terrorism , to give them fair trial so as to defend themselves.

The Forum on Indigenous Issues is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, sexual exploitation, militarization, displacement, incarceration, labour and others.

And for those living in the most dehumanizing conditions of mental illness within homelessness and incarceration, the music and the beauty of music offers a chance for them to transcend the world around them, to remember that they still have the capacity to experience something beautiful and that humanity has not forgotten them.

Under Nigeria s various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.

In accordance with article 2, paragraph 3 (a), of the Covenant, the State party is under an obligation to provide the author with an effective remedy, including adequate compensation, inter alia for the time of his detention and imprisonment.

Calls on all States in their fight against so called terrorism to respect the rights of minorities and communities in non OIC Member States, not to infringe upon their religious freedom and faith, not to subject them to detention or arbitrary imprisonment, and to give them a fair trial to defend themselves.

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, sexual exploitation, militarization, displacement, incarceration, labour and others.

A Saudi man who was arrested in January on charges of homosexuality, a general security offence, and impersonation of a police officer has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes, plus a fine of 5,000 rials (US 1,333) and a year in prison.

The issues pertaining to the commercial and other forms of sexual exploitation of women are mentioned under Articles 296, 297, 506 and 507 of the old Penal Code which stated that those who violated this law would be punished and imprisoned for four years.

The Dark Era (1990 99) During the rule of the government of Saddam Hussein, Saddam's son, Uday Hussein, was in charge of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and, by extension, the national football team.

In 1965 66, up to a million Indonesians were massacred by the military, paramilitary and civilian mobs. Hundreds of thousands more were injured, disappeared, raped and imprisoned without trial. The United States and the United Kingdom secretly welcomed and supported the killings.

Article 51 of the law states that, if a crime is committed online and harms national unity or social harmony, it will be punishable by hard labor, ranging between three and 15 years, a sentence impacting all those who partook in the crime.

For the crime of kidnapping and false imprisonment, the sentence of two to five years in prison also applies to cases in which the victim was the companion of the perpetrator the victim of the crime was a minor (less than 18 years old) or if the crime was committed for lecherous purposes.