While some Peruvians celebrated Humala's jailing as an attack on impunity, others objected to the jailing without charges.
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Vladimir Putin is often accused of jailing his political opponents.
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US law does not allow for the jailing of children.
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The government also has a fearsome reputation for jailing journalists.
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The jailing of the young activists has attracted international attention.
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Barr did not reject the possibility of jailing journalists outright.
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When your running mate teases assassinating and jailing his rival.
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Their jailing spurred international criticism and protests in Hong Kong.
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As if his federal indictment and jailing wasn't bad enough.
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He denies wrongdoing, and his conviction and jailing has divided Brazilians.
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Rights groups accuse Azeri authorities of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents.
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That could just mean that police are jailing the right people.
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Jailing its citizens, its minds, its innovation capacities in four walls.
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Opponents say that veers toward, well, jailing people for being poor.
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His government has delayed elections while jailing protesters and political opponents.
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"I don't think there's anything moderate about jailing journalists," he said.
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Later, Comey said Trump returned to the subject of jailing reporters.
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Does the post-Mexico jailing have anything to do with Wednesday's order?
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The secret police is once again jailing protesters and harassing civil activists.
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He is ruling as a dictator, jailing or harassing scores of opponents.
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Those are the way tin-pot dictators act, jailing their political opponents.
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Or the Gambian government jailing activists who staged protests against sand mining.
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Professor LeBas said Mr. Trump was unlikely to succeed in jailing Mrs.
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Jailing him would end his front-runner bid to return to office.
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International critics accused the Ukraine government of jailing her for political reasons.
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Trump reportedly told James Comey to consider jailing reporters for publishing classified information
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They also asked for the jailing of businessman Júlio César Pinto de Andrade.
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Jailing someone is about five times more expensive than 24-hour GPS monitoring.
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Analysts were divided over whether Nawaz Sharif's jailing would generate a sympathy vote.
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The arrest and jailing of leading businessmen has meant frozen payrolls and layoffs.
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But throughout the course of Rocky's jailing, Trump often advocated for his freedom.
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Jailing the money-launderers' pinstriped accomplices, when they do break laws, would help too.
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Many of those concerns remain, including the jailing of dissidents and stalled political reforms.
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Ms Ortega is no softie; she is loathed by the opposition for jailing politicians.
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"I was hoping for financial compensation and jailing him for longer period," he said.
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In normal times, America would denounce the jailing of journalists and muzzling of newspapers.
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The international rights group Amnesty International said the jailing of the three was "appalling".
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The protests were triggered by the jailing of their elected leader on corruption charges.
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Mr. Perez's jailing on gun charges weeks later did little to slow the bloodshed.
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"I had a fight that first night," she recalled of her jailing in 290.
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Despite his brother Nawaz Sharif's conviction and jailing, the family still garners considerable support.
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But rights advocates accuse Aliyev's government of muzzling and jailing opponents, charges it denies.
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On Saturday, the Fox News host Jeanine Pirro called for the jailing of Mrs.
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The jailing of political opponents is something that happens in dictatorships and banana republics.
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During the pandemic, L.A. cops are not booking and jailing people for minor offenses.
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Jailing families together: This is what is considered progress in the current immigration climate.
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But Germany has been a vocal critic of the jailing of Mr. Erdogan's opponents.
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That district attorney lost her re-election in part for jailing that rape victim.
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You should consider, Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, jailing journalists who publish classified information.
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Comey wrote that he laughed when the president suggested jailing reporters who publish leaks.
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Mr. Chávez responded by packing the courts, closing media outlets and jailing his opponents.
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No other U.S. legal system permits jailing people without review by an independent judiciary.
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The government has turned up its repression, jailing and torturing members of the opposition.
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There was no longer an open policy of jailing local residents without probable cause.
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And so we need to start treating people in this country, not jailing them.
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She was entirely to blame for jailing Mr López in the first place, he declared.
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Suu Kyi said in September their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
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Being tough on crime, Trump would have you believe, does not necessarily mean jailing criminals.
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"I do not value jailing immigrants, some of whom have not committed any criminal violations."
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The most recent jailing linked to the Tiananmen protests occurred on April 4th this year.
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In 2015 its investigations prompted the resignation and jailing of the president, Otto Pérez Molina.
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Jailing Guaidó would cross a U.S. red line and raise the risk of military confrontation.
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Of course jailing white collar criminals is a lot easier said than done, especially CEOs.
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This is evident in the frightening statistics about the jailing of non-violent drug offenders.
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Where that will lead was not clear, but jailing Catalan leaders was among the possibilities.
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He has all but crushed independent media, jailing journalists and other critics, and fosters corruption.
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But it was the second jailing of a former Brazilian president in as many years.
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Another rally was held outside a Dallas Cowboys game to protest the jailing of demonstrators.
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In Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey, the government is closing campuses and jailing students and teachers.
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" He reacted to Manafort's jailing on Twitter later in the day, calling it "very unfair.
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The opposition has accused Yameen's government of jailing leaders who could challenge his re-election bid.
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The police and government say the student's jailing is right because his behaviour was anti-India.
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Now, the jailing of two Reuters journalists has become a test of the country's democratic reform.
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The BNP, facing near-extinction with Khaleda's jailing, hopes it has found the lifeline it needed.
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For another, speaking out challenges Mr Xi in his belief that jailing peaceful dissenters is normal.
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The authorities have also started jailing protest leaders like Joshua Wong, a 21-year-old student.
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Mr Atambayev, for his part, pledged on election day to keep jailing anyone who "pulls stunts".
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And it retains classic Eastern Bloc–style surveillance, jailing of dissidents, and vicious suppression of dissent.
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The Supreme Court and federal law have generally prohibited states from jailing people over unpaid debts.
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Hasina's administration has been accused of suppressing dissent and jailing critics, including supporters of the BNP.
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He suppressed it by accusing its leaders of sedition, jailing some and forcing others into exile.
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It doesn't necessarily happen elsewhere, that the arbitrary arrest and jailing of journalists has economic impact.
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Democrats are already talking about impeaching or jailing Trump for arranging the payments (The Associated Press).
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This involved seizing and burning tens of thousands of peyote buttons, jailing distributors, and raiding ceremonies.
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He could justify Renshaw's jailing—he was actively plotting murders, and he was an alleged pedophile.
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Press freedom groups have objected too, citing the frequent jailing of journalists in the Chinese mainland.
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In the absence of elections, jailing intellectuals or maintaining the state of emergency carries little meaning.
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The disclosures led to the jailing of two activists who were given 10-year prison sentences.
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Jailing his political opponent was a chant his followers took up, and he encouraged, after all.
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In October, Vice blacked out all of its websites across the globe to highlight Rasool's jailing.
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But within several years, freedom fighter-turned-president Isaias Afwerki was jailing ministers and newspaper editors.
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Instead, Mr. Maduro appears to have tightened his grip on the country, jailing and threatening opponents.
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The scandal has resulted in the jailing of more than 40 construction moguls, oilmen and politicians.
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It's also reportedly jailing bus drivers who refuse to take Gazans to the border to protest.
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Abiy said his administration had released all political prisoners, shut detention facilities and stopped jailing journalists.
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It had young people provoke the government into jailing them and calling them spies and traitors.
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Moon's party expressed regret, accusing the court of making a mistake and jailing an innocent person.
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A pardon would not reach Congress's contempt jailing because it is a civil, rather than criminal, detention.
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The opposition has accused Yameen's government of jailing its leaders who could challenge his re-election bid.
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Mr Moro had ordered the jailing of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a left-wing former president.
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In Turkey's case they point to the jailing tens of thousands of people after the attempted coup.
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Incarcerating an older prisoner can cost up to five times as much as jailing a younger one.
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Billed as an anti-corruption sweep, the jailing also feels unmistakably like a purge of political foes.
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In retrospect, he could have done his party—and his country—a favor by jailing some bankers.
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Macri is one of the region's leading critics of Maduro, accusing him of unjustly jailing opposition leaders.
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"Iran's continued wrongful jailing of Americans is very disturbing," Royce said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.
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At the time, Ukraine's government faced rebuke by the Obama administration and Congress for jailing political opponents.
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The immediate catalyst for their protest was the jailing last week of three Umbrella Movement protest leaders.
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Jackson denied a request by Westling to delay jailing Manafort so that he could appeal her decision.
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Tensions have risen since the jailing of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption charges last week.
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America has a massive over-incarceration problem, jailing more people than any other country by many multiples.
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Mr. Erdogan has denied jailing masses of journalists, saying that only two of those arrested are journalists.
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Mr. Maduro's jailing of his opponents has been widely criticized by foreign governments and democracy advocates worldwide.
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Enormous trials in the early 1990s resulted in the arrest and jailing of more than 300 gangsters.
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Mr. Trump dismissed Russia's human rights violations, its jailing of journalists and political opponents, its rigged elections.
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Since then, he has been accused of eroding democracy, cracking down on dissent and jailing opposition leaders.
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But his power has waned in recent years, highlighted by the jailing of two of his children.
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The sex act is illegal in Malaysia, but rights groups said Mr. Anwar's jailing was politically motivated.
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The idea of jailing someone who leaks transcripts of conversations intercepted at foreign embassies is not theoretical.
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Police have started raiding farmers' homes and jailing them until they pay outstanding fines from years back.
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He will win unopposed, after banning the main opposition party, jailing its leader, and muzzling the independent press.
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China is showing the way here with its response to the jailing of a Huawei executive in Canada.
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The president has a history of jailing journalists and cracking down on media companies critical of his policies.
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It arrested all surviving black residents who weren't already imprisoned, jailing them for as long as eight days.
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They included jailing the country's president, Otto Pérez Molina (pictured) in 2015, and the vice-president, Roxana Baldetti.
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You have a lot of Democrats out saying that we should be jailing more executives, so two questions.
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Lula's conviction, and his jailing after a failed appeal, barred him from running in last year's presidential election.
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To get Mr Jeyenbekov across the line he took to jailing both leaders and supporters of the opposition.
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It provided justification for jailing Alberto Fujimori, Peru's president in the 1990s, on charges of violating human rights.
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The ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has a habit, always denied, of jailing its political opponents.
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More than 303,000 marched in Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday, pushing for family reunification and to stop jailing immigrants.
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The jailing of Ali and Peter is the latest sign that the net is widening to include technologists.
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Referred to as "the Great Writ," habeas corpus affords citizens the right to challenge their arrests and jailing.
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Opponents say he has become a dictator, jailing opponents, sidelining the opposition-led congress and delaying local elections.
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The Salvadoran government responded by jailing 22012,22017 young people in the early 133s, which only exacerbated the problem.
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However, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's director of crisis response, says jailing journalists won't absolve them of their crimes.
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The jailing of her attackers was a victory for women's rights in Afghanistan, but it brought only tragedy.
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From early in his rule, he proved to be despotic: confiscating property, jailing and torturing opponents and counterrevolutionaries.
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His recent corruption crackdown, jailing royals and business leaders in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel, is the most glaring.
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Too often, we miss these chances to help wounded young people, and we invest only in jailing them.
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He even took to TV to order the jailing of a judge who had released a hated enemy.
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Maduro has threatened that one of the constitutional assembly's first acts would be jailing Guevara for inciting violence.
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But various European bodies and rights groups have accused President Ilham Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents.
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Donald Trump isn't jailing journalists or shutting down media organizations he sees as hostile or biased against him.
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He launched a war on corruption by jailing political actors without trial and committing widespread human rights abuses.
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The probe has already led to the jailing of many powerful politicians and businessmen from all major parties.
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Despite further protest and Davis's ultimate jailing for contempt of court, normal service was restored in short order.
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The White House on Wednesday also pointed to the nation's long history of not jailing political rivals in retribution.
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Asylum seekers have often been denied "humanitarian parole" while their cases are decided, effectively jailing them without due process.
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In addition, Saudi Arabia expelled Canada's ambassador last August after Ms Freeland criticised it for jailing human-rights activists.
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Washington has steadfastly stood by the kingdom, despite its brutal war in Yemen and jailing of human rights activists.
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In November New Mexico voters passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting judges from jailing people because they can't afford bail.
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For example, suppose the Democrats seized control of all levels of government and immediately began jailing Republicans for treason.
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In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a less subtle route, jailing journalists and seizing control of independent newspapers.
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Some compared it to Mr Yanukovych's jailing of his leading rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister, in 2011.
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The exodus slowed after Madrid imposed direct rule in late October and the jailing of separatists in early November.
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He oversaw the massacre of hundreds of Mr Morsi's supporters, and the jailing of tens of thousands of dissidents.
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Democratic ballyhooing over Mr. Putin's habit of jailing and sometimes killing his political and media opponents is especially rich.
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Private businesses were confiscated; massive jailing of artists and homosexuals gave way to a dark period of the Revolution.
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The BNP remains in disarray after the jailing of its head, former prime minister Khaleda Zia, on corruption charges.
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Xi Jinping, China's president, has been tightening controls on civil society and the media, and jailing ever more activists.
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In early 2018, Kurdish forces captured two British men who participated in jailing Ms. Mueller and abusing Western hostages.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has led a campaign detaining and jailing hundreds of rights lawyers and activists since 2012.
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President Donald Trump called Manafort's jailing "very unfair" in a tweet almost two hours after he was ordered detained.
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The New York Times report also said Trump suggested Comey should consider jailing reporters who publish leaked classified information.
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In 2015, it investigated a multimillion-dollar graft case that led to the jailing of former President Otto Perez.
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And drug reform could go a long way to prevent the disproportionate jailing of African American boys and men.
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In September, Suu Kyi said the jailing of the Reuters reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
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But Torra continued to display yellow ribbons - a protest against the jailing of Catalan independence leaders - from government buildings.
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Kadyrov's previous policies have included rounding up, beating, and jailing LGBT rights activists on vague concerns over HIV transmission.
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Several other municipalities, and at least one state legislature, have considered fining — or even jailing — parents whose children bully.
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But he quickly defended the policy, saying he was not alone in jailing those who fight against the state.
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Over 15 years in power, Mr. Erdogan has steadily consolidated domestic control, jailing dissidents and crushing the independent media.
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Other Democrats believe Congress should pursue inherent contempt: jailing or fining administration officials who don't comply with their subpoenas.
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The jailing of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff's mentor and predecessor, fueled a narrative of corruption.
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The finale, in particular, drives this point home, when the jailing of Félix doesn't actually cease the drug war.
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Markey and Wyden to roll out legislation condemning Turkey for targeting and jailing political opponents, journalists and minority groups.
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The government has usually avoided jailing him, however, apparently fearful of turning him into an even bigger political martyr.
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Last week, Mr. Trump commented on Twitter that flag-burning should be punished by jailing and revocation of citizenship.
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In 2012, he sewed his lips shut in response to the jailing of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot.
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In March, he asked then-FBI Director James Comey to examine options for jailing reporters who published leaked information.
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Since then, authorities have waged a sweeping crackdown on dissent, jailing thousands of Islamists as well as prominent secular activists.
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His more controversial moves have included the jailing of illegal immigrants in tent cities and chain gangs for women inmates.
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Wade decision legalizing abortion, referred to a recent Alabama law that she said called for jailing doctors who perform abortions.
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The cultural commissars preferred to keep such popular, restless talents in a gilded cage, rather than banishing or jailing them.
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But many protested how it was done, including the jailing of elected politicians and the curbs on communication and travel.
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Lula's jailing is a blow for Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing demagogue who portrays himself as the antithesis of Lula.
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In May, judges upheld a lower court ruling convicting a man and woman of trafficking, jailing them for 12 years.
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The jailing this week of a former ally, and questions about missing money, are bringing the crisis to a head.
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Since the coup attempt, Erdogan has embarked on a sweeping crackdown, jailing some 50,000 people and sacking or suspending 150,000.
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They followed the jailing last month of nine separatist leaders over their roles in a failed independence bid in 2017.
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Global leaders are now quoting the president in denying human rights reports and justifying the jailing of journalists and dissidents.
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He provided few details but said that last fall, the S.D.F. self-reported and investigated an incident, jailing a guard.
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It is estimated they cost the state more than $1 billion each decade in policing, court operations, probation and jailing.
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The vote was marred by the jailing of political opponents, accusations of widespread vote-buying, and record-low voter turnout.
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And DC has saved close to $400 million a year by avoiding jailing costs for those who are facing charges.
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He has also attempted to crush the opposition by jailing or exiling critics, and using lethal force against antigovernment protesters.
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The latest change has coincided with the arrest and jailing of the women who have challenged the ban on driving.
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The jailing of Catalan politicians has become one of the main campaign issues before new regional elections scheduled for Dec.
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Demonstrators during a protest against the jailing of Catalan separatists at El Prat airport in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, Oct.
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Since then, he has been accused of jailing critics, cracking down on dissent and ultimately eroding the country's democratic process.
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However, the government does not allow dissent against its leadership and is criticised by human rights groups for jailing activists.
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The jailing of Mr. Lee, who is facing trial, is another potent sign that the old order is not holding.
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Mr. Guo left China during a corruption scandal linked to the jailing of his political patron, a top security official.
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The incarceration trends for men and women have been very different: Jailing women was once rare but is now commonplace.
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Senate Bill 4 calls for jailing police chiefs, sheriffs and possibly frontline officers who fail to cooperate with U.S. immigration officials.
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Bahrain is known for jailing online dissidents and for its horrific human rights record, including deportation and ongoing allegations of torture.
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This has created more fear of jailing and deportation among communities of color, and Trump's backers only serve to embolden it.
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As governor of Benguela province from 1987 to 1990, he cracked down on corruption, even jailing members of his own party.
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In 2016 President Macky Sall spoke about taking the children off the streets and jailing those who forced them to beg.
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Homosexual and heterosexual couples subsequently sued her, and her jailing drew international attention and demonstrations from both sides of the issue.
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He ruled with an iron fist — subjugating, jailing and even torturing anyone whom his government suspected of disobedience to the state.
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Under Obama, the DOJ charged eight people who provided information to journalists about national security programs, ultimately jailing several of them.
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This is an important step in preventing the government from falsely rebranding the jailing of children as a normal daycare operation.
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The opposition has accused Yameen's government of jailing leaders who could challenge Yameen's re-election bid, a charge the government denies.
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Egyptian authorities have declared it a terrorist organization and jailing thousands of its followers and much of its leadership, including Mursi.
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Vice President Pence on Wednesday criticized Myanmar's leader over the country's treatment of Rohingya Muslims and its jailing of two journalists.
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And RFA reporters' family members in China are forced to live under a threat of harassment and jailing by the authorities.
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Navalny told the Russian court that he thought authorities were jailing him to keep him from attending the protest, per Reuters.
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A good place to start is obviously enforcing the lobbyist registration rules by actually fining or even jailing the worst offenders.
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After 373 years in office, he remains a singularly polarizing figure, jailing journalists and overseeing a massive purge of civil servants.
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The arrests and jailing of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have shone a spotlight on the state of Myanmar in.
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Putin's suppression of the opposition resulted in the murders of prominent journalists and politicians and the jailing of the vocal opponents.
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said the jailing of the reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
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The corruption conviction and jailing of Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister, just before the elections also helped Mr. Khan's ascent.
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Last year, media freedom groups once again judged Turkey to be the world's worst offender for jailing reporters for their work.
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He was referring to the 79 days of largely peaceful protests in 2014 that led to the jailing of activist leaders.
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My government and every administration since threw everything at the problem — from fumigating crops to jailing every drug pusher in sight.
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At the same time, the Cuban government penalized dissent, often censoring, jailing, and even executing so-called traitors to the Revolution.
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In the statement, Boudin said taxpayers spent $38 million per day jailing people who have not been convicted of any crimes.
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Kelly's most recent jailing, on Wednesday, involved what authorities said was failure to pay his ex-wife child support of $161,000.
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Incumbent President Abdulla Yameen, who has been accused of cracking down on dissent and jailing opposition leaders, has not officially conceded.
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The study shows that the trend also has led to a reduction in the government's costs associated with jailing undocumented criminals.
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The theories span from Zaharie being suicidal (potentially related to his wife) to protesting the jailing of a Malaysia opposition leader.
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Jailing executives for failing to prevent so-called "megabreaches," particularly when negligence is determined the leading cause, is not a new idea.
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It literally means under penalty if you don't show up, there is a penalty -- jailing and fines and that sort of thing.
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"We have seen first-hand the damage and horror that separating and jailing children and families has inflicted on these kids," FWD.
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It punctured their momentum and energized the opposition, leading to public embarrassments, social media bans, and the jailing of many alt-righters.
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Suddenly it was fashionable to complain about jailing dissidents (it helped that China seemed less important when the Soviet Union was crumbling).
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But the Czech communists never broke from a party history that involved censorship, show trials, judicial executions and the jailing of dissenters.
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The jailing of Wong, who she said was "doing the bravest things compared to a lot of us", hit her particularly hard.
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But humanity should celebrate the fact that it has such powerful medicine available to it, rather than jailing people for taking it.
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Turkey has cracked down on the movement since the abortive coup, jailing thousands and sacking or suspending from their jobs thousands more.
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Which, while terrible, isn't really comparable with killing innocent civilians in Yemen, jailing human rights activists or others of MBS's alleged pastimes.
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Pavlensky's earlier performances include sewing his lips together to protest against the jailing of anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot in 2012.
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The billionaire also pledged after his victory that he would prioritize deporting or jailing undocumented immigrants with gang ties or criminal records.
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He would also create a $20 billion grant program to incentivize states to shift their focus from jailing people to preventing crime.
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Human-rights groups criticised Angola for jailing 17 youngsters for organising a reading of a book about transitions from dictatorship to democracy.
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Read more: Jailing Muslims, burning Bibles, and forcing monks to wave the national flag: How Xi Jinping is attacking religion in China
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The grounds are also home to the prison museum Vita Bjorn, which explores the castle's history of jailing notable Swedish royals. kastelholm.
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The fire now is fueled by memes about jailing Clinton and casual remarks about executing her, among other distasteful expressions of contempt.
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Various European bodies and human rights groups have accused Azeri President Ilham Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents, charges Baku denies.
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The report attributed the dip to a new political climate in Ethiopia, where reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed has stopped jailing reporters.
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So could a NIMBY attitude about jails shift to one where people are less and less interested in jailing fellow humans, period?
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Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia's separatist leader, called the jailing "very bad news," but failed to clarify his quixotic position regarding the region's independence.
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Catch and release is a term with no legal definition and has been used as a pejorative alternative to jailing illegal immigrants.
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And they are maintaining a campaign of denial and avoidance, as well as jailing and intimidating reporters who have documented the attacks.
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The arrest followed last week's jailing of Roy Elworthy in Portland on accusations that he set fire to a homeless encampment Aug.
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The lawsuits work: As a settlement is negotiated, a judge typically agrees to stop jailing new inmates for unpaid fines or fees.
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"Convict leasing" institutionalizes the unwarranted jailing of African-American men and women to provide labor for plantations that no longer have slaves.
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Second: Persecuting and jailing a political opponent only makes it more likely that you and your allies will be persecuted in turn.
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Worse, China obliterated our intelligence networks in the country, leading to the jailing and killing of more than a dozen CIA informants.
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As a result, judges have found that jailing people during that gap constitutes an unlawful seizure, in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
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After all, it's not the U.S. jailing Bahrain's opposition leaders, and the Obama administration has publicly called for some to be released.
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Following their jailing, the wives of the two journalists made an impassioned plea for their husbands' freedom, who they maintain are innocent.
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In practice, as Lord Chancellor of England, More oversaw the burning of at least six Protestants and the jailing of some forty.
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An armed anti-government militia group occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters to protest the jailing of two ranchers for arson.
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Erdogan has spoken in favor of the jailing, ahead of their trial, of academics and journalists on charges of supporting terrorist groups.
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In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken a less subtle route, jailing journalists and seizing control of the country's independent newspapers.
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Critics accuse Maduro of creating a dictatorship by stifling dissent, using security forces to limit the right to protest and arbitrarily jailing demonstrators.
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The President-elect called Tuesday for punishing anyone who burns the American flag by "perhaps" jailing them -- or even stripping them of citizenship.
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For example, the jailing of Manafort on the basis of a prediction or on the basis of an assumption that he did something.
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That has meant efforts to stifle challenges to the party, including the jailing of dozens of rights lawyers and activists under Xi's administration.
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The operation led to the jailing of more than 100 businessmen and several politicians, including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former president.
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Until two months ago, the BNP was in disarray following the jailing in February of Khaleda, on charges she said were politically motivated.
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Once a reformist, Erdogan has become a highly polarizing figure and taken an authoritarian turn, curtailing free speech and jailing tens of thousands.
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Rights groups also accuse Jammeh, who took power in a 1994 coup, of jailing, torturing and killing political opponents - charges Jammeh has denied.
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Hafez cited rights accusations against Turkey, including the existence of 70,000 political prisoners, jailing of 175 journalists and firing of 130,000 government employees.
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In recent months authorities have spearheaded an anti-graft purge of the oil sector, jailing 69 top managers including two former oil ministers.
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Nicolás Maduro, the leader of a once-popular socialist government, has started jailing (and potentially abusing) political opponents following a dubious election result.
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It requires active, unsleeping maintenance by state-security agents tasked with tracking, threatening or jailing any who challenge the Communist monopoly on power.
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in September that the jailing of the reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
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These have implicated scores of politicians and led to the jailing of the PT's leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former president.
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The campaign has led to the jailing or punishment of thousands of officials and brought down dozens of senior party and military officials.
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And the government has a long track record of jailing its critics and restricting freedom of expression and assembly, according to Amnesty International.
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Yet, in the nearly two years between their arrest and jailing, the expected US-style fentanyl explosion has so far failed to ignite.
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Strong leaders remain in power by defeating their rivals in open and fair elections; paranoid dictators remain in power by jailing their opponents.
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After jailing one former vice-president and driving another into exile, Mr Yameen has governed without a deputy for the past seven months.
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Welcomed at first on a promise of ending corruption, Jammeh became increasingly intolerant of dissent, jailing and torturing opponents, human rights groups say.
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Government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in September that the jailing of the reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
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Nobody is suggesting that anyone's killed reporters (although jailing is a different story here, historically) but there are warning signs we can't ignore.
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In 2012, the jailing of members of anti-Kremlin group Pussy Riot for performing a "punk prayer" in a church provoked international outrage.
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The suit argued that the "Dickensian system" of jailing people, many of them poor and black, for unpaid fines and fees was unconstitutional.
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Van der Zwaan worked for Skadden Arps on the Manafort job, which involved a report on the jailing of a Ukrainian opposition figure.
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"The arresting and jailing and murder of black organizers and leaders was seen as a lesson not to go that path again," Russell says.
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But her government has been accused of suppressing dissent and jailing critics, including many supporters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
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The campaign has led to the jailing or punishment of thousands of officials and brought down dozens of senior party and military officials.
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Many on social media said they considered Mr. Ban's jailing unwarranted, while acknowledging that his dogs did not have the most flattering names.
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Jailing Mr. Manafort while he awaits trial would increase that pressure, but Mr. Trump's lawyers say Mr. Manafort has nothing incriminating to provide.
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The district attorney in New Orleans is not the only prosecutor jailing crime survivors when they get too scared to testify in court.
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They broke off from a larger protest on Saturday that was voicing opposition to the imminent jailing of two ranchers convicted of arson.
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China's far-reaching crackdown on graft has swept through several industries and led to the arrest and jailing of senior politicians and executives.
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Some of Trump's supporters pummeled a protester and some called for the jailing of another woman who has accused Trump of sexual assault.
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Demonstrators clash with police officers during a protest against the jailing of Catalan separatists at the El Prat airport in Barcelona, Oct. 14.
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However, Marbut in the past has said he also doesn't support outright criminalization or jailing people instead of providing some sort of service.
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The group said that if anything, the numbers might be an underestimate, because its methodology required a clear link between jailing and journalism.
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She has argued for the jailing of opposition leaders, including Leopoldo López, who is among the most prominent; Venezuela now has 359 political prisoners.
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Reports suggest the authorities are not just jailing and harassing legal practitioners and their relatives, but also subjecting some of them to appalling torture.
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The then-Prime Minister clamped down on the "Reformasi" movement sparked by the removal and subsequent jailing of his Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim.
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Jesus Torrealba, head of the opposition coalition, said happiness at Tuesday's release of the prisoners was mixed with anger over the continued jailing others.
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Almagro cited Venezuela's "unprecedented and unnecessary" humanitarian crisis, the jailing of opposition members and reports of torture as examples of abuses by the government.
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The EU has criticized Bulgaria for making slow progress toward stamping out graft, jailing corrupt officials and businessmen and overhauling an inefficient, creaking judiciary.
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There was no direct mention of Zhou, but the party has repeatedly warned law enforcers of the need for party loyalty after his jailing.
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The jailing of a handful of other protesters on charges including assaulting police at political rallies that began in July caused a public outcry.
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With Maduro's long track record of threatening, jailing, torturing, and even killing those who speak out against him, the Venezuelans are showing incredible courage.
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He said at the time that authorities were jailing him to keep him from attending the protests against the raising of the retirement age.
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Despite worldwide condemnation of his actions, Mr. Castro clamped down on a fledgling democracy movement, jailing anyone who dared to call for free elections.
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Tensions increased between the US and Turkey last year over the jailing of American Pastor Andrew Brunson, whom Turkey also accused of terrorist ties.
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The campaign has led to the jailing or punishment of thousands of officials and also brought down dozens of senior party and military officials.
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Mr. Sissi has since overseen a massive crackdown on Mr. Morsi's supporters, jailing thousands of them along with secular activists behind the 2011 uprising.
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But the commission's contribution toward strengthening the rule of law in Guatemala goes beyond disrupting these schemes and jailing corrupt politicians and their allies.
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And because laws and court rulings aimed at protecting children prohibit jailing young people for more than 20 days, families are often simply released.
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Even though fining people is theoretically less divisive than jailing them, it would still be a lightning rod for controversy in the Trump era.
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Because prior court cases have all dealt more with the question of jailing, legal decisions are far more vague on the issue of fines.
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The crown prince showed his sensitivity and unpredictability in August when Canada's foreign ministry tweeted concern about the jailing of Saudi women's rights activists.
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He ticks off a number of things he would try to do, including using antitrust laws to break up monopolies and jailing pharmaceutical executives.
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Since then, he has ordered the dismissal of 100,000 state employees and the jailing of more than 40,000 others suspected of supporting the coup.
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The government was jailing opposition leaders in advance of a planned protest march, and Smolansky had calculated, probably rightly, that he might be next.
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Jailing or expelling some radical clerics and detaining 200 rich princes and officials in a nice hotel seem far more palatable for obvious reasons.
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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who won a third straight term in an election last December, has been criticized for suppressing dissent and jailing critics.
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Trump's language "serves to reinforce the framework of accusations and legal charges that allow such leaders to preside over the jailing of journalists," CPJ said.
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Mahathir also dealt ruthlessly with opponents, jailing his former deputy - and now alliance partner - Anwar Ibrahim on corruption and sodomy charges in the late 1990s.
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A deep fear of the president, who was notorious for jailing and torturing those who criticized him, meant doctors and patients publicly praised his cures.
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The government has been cracking down on opposition media outlets, jailing some Turkish journalists for critical coverage and expelling some Western journalists in recent years.
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Opposition and some rights activists say he has grown authoritarian, citing frequent tear-gassing of opposition rallies, jailing of activists and harassment of independent media.
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The groups want Mississippi to rethink its get-tough-on-crime policies of jailing people for minor offenses, such as possessing small quantities of drugs.
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After the referendum, separatists were further inflamed by the jailing, pending trial for obstructing a police raid, of the leaders of two secessionist social movements.
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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who won a third straight term in an election last December, has been criticised for suppressing dissent and jailing critics.
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Two days after Mr García's death, a judge ordered the preventive jailing of another, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, aged 80 and in hospital, for 36 months.
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Experts I spoke to said that jailing US government employees is not normal diplomatic practice, and it's especially egregious when a NATO ally does it.
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Jailing Carter now would mean she might serve her full sentence before the U.S. Supreme Court "issues its decision and provides further guidance," they wrote.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday the jailing of four leaders of Hong Kong's 2014 pro-democracy protests was deeply disappointing.
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Following Morsi's ouster, el-Sissi launched one of the harshest crackdowns in years, jailing of thousands of Islamists and scores of liberal, pro-democracy activists.
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When kids are affected like that, as they often are, this system of jailing people who can't pay fines is grotesque as well as Kafkaesque.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, thuggish abuser of human rights, stands accused of brazenly jailing his political opponents and killing journalists, yet he remains immensely popular.
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The authorities have recently adopted a proactive policy, jailing hundreds of terrorist suspects on lesser charges (such as extremist propaganda) before they could commit violence.
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Abetting him are supporters such as Rudy Giuliani, who demanded the suspension of special counsel Robert Mueller and the jailing of FBI agent Peter Strzok.
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President Trump reportedly told now-ousted FBI Director James Comey to consider jailing reporters who publish leaked classified information, according to The New York Times.
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Some have also proposed jailing those who do not comply under the same rarely used power, while others have raised the prospect of impeaching officials.
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On Monday Nasheed issued a statement accusing Yameen of jailing all opposition leaders and cracking down "on anyone who dares to oppose or criticize him".
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They allege right-wing enemies conspired to drive the PT from power by jailing him and impeaching his hand-picked successor, former President Dilma Rousseff.
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Two-thirds of voters who characterized themselves as strong conservatives or as leaning conservative were in favor of jailing people who falsify hate crime reports.
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Xi has waged battle on corruption, jailing dozens of senior officials, warning the problem is so severe it could affect the party's grip on power.
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In 2011, as waves of discontent spread into the United Arab Emirates, the government cracked down on reformers, jailing protesters and successfully maintaining its power.
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The year before, Mr. Ledezma was one of the leaders of government protests that shook Venezuela and led to the jailing of other prominent opponents.
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A Japanese court on Friday formally approved jailing Mr. Ghosn for the next 10 days, which the court can extend for an additional 10 days.
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The idea of jailing Hillary Clinton was endorsed three times by speakers at the podium on Monday — two that were scripted, and one that wasn't.
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Opposition to Mr. Duterte in the Senate had been already weakened by the 2017 jailing of Senator de Lima, one of his most vociferous critics.
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"If the ordinary folk are being killed, he is now jailing his critics," Mr. Trillanes said Tuesday, referring to Mr. Duterte's bloody crackdown on narcotics.
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"Quite apart from jailing Anwar Ibrahim, his disparaging remarks about Anwar's character over the years didn't stop them from getting together," Najib said of Mahathir.
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Ms. Sobol cannot be sent to prison, thanks to a Russian law that prohibits the jailing of women with children under the age of 14.
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Rather, the judges found that fining or jailing homeless people for sleeping in public outdoor spaces when no other options were available violated constitutional protections.
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We've seen around the world an unprecedented rise in attacks on journalists, threats to journalists, censorship of journalists, jailing of journalists and murders of journalists.
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They accuse him of curtailing democracy and freedom of speech, of jailing opponents, including students, journalists and activists, especially following a failed military coup in 2016.
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Before the 2016 election, the late Charles Krauthammer wrote that while there were many problems with Trump, his insistence on jailing Hillary Clinton might reign supreme.
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Thousands of people across the globe protested on Saturday to demand that the Trump administration reunite families and stop detaining and jailing migrants without due process.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Masked demonstrators clashed with police in central Barcelona on Friday as a fifth day of protests over the jailing of separatist leaders turned violent.
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U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she would not detain Stone for violating the order, saying jailing him would only generate more media attention.
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Hasina has been lauded internationally for providing refuge to Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar, but her government is accused of suppressing dissent and jailing critics.
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The country has also cracked down on online speech, jailing those who express support for terrorist groups or other forms of hate speech on social media.
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Under Biden's new plan, he would aim to reduce the U.S. prison population, in part by ending the jailing of people solely for drug use offences.
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It also dismisses accusations of jailing BNP workers on false charges, and Hasina has said there are no plans to modify the new digital security law.
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This includes not conducting airstrikes, invading Iraq, furnishing repressive regimes with tear gas and deadly weapons, overlooking the jailing of dissidents and cozying up to autocrats.
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That came two years after a crackdown on what authorities fuzzily called "online rumors" and the subsequent jailing of people who criticized the party on forums.
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To secure her jailing, federal prosecutors laid out conversations and photos the former American University student had with Russian politician Alexander Torshin and other powerful Russians.
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The department says state and local courts have an obligation to inquire about a person's ability to pay fines and fees before jailing them for nonpayment.
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Jailing of opposition activists and leaders is routine and security forces often refuse permission for anti-government protests or break them up with teargas and beatings.
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But it wasn't necessarily desertion: Dahl testified in court that jailing Bergdahl would be "inappropriate," as he did not plan to abandon the US military entirely.
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FBI alleged he conspired to conceal how VW car pollution Why it Matters: The Feds have been criticized for just fining delinquent multinationals without jailing executives.
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The opposition and some rights groups say he has grown authoritarian, citing frequent tear-gassing of opposition rallies, jailing of campaigners and harassment of independent media.
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The chant, a rallying cry from President Donald Trump's campaign events, calls for jailing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee in the 2016 race and Trump's opponent.
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To manage the fallout from jailing Mr. Brunson, Mr. Erdogan has already been forced to release, among others, a jailed German journalist and two Greek soldiers.
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The Trump administration has steadily increased sanctions against officials in the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro, accusing it of stifling democracy by jailing opposition leaders.
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The Mexican government and labor unions have long controlled the workforce with an iron grip, immediately quashing labor unrest by jailing workers who go on strike.
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And Ms. Pelosi on Thursday stopped short of endorsing an approach that could lead to the jailing of or the imposing of fines on recalcitrant witnesses.
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Millions of Brazilians understand that my jailing has nothing to do with corruption, and they understand that I am where I am merely for political reasons.
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Inherent and criminal contempt were so effective historically because they confronted people who defied congressional authority with certain, swift, severe punishment through jailing, fines or both.
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Over time, though, the country's judicial standards and rigorous protections for the accused made the jailing of political enemies difficult, maintaining a crucial bulwark against autocracy.
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President Trump has failed to carry out many of his authoritarian impulses — like, say, banning Muslims from entering the United States or jailing his political opponents.
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Dr. Tedros was also accused of complicity in his country's dismal human rights record, which includes massacring protesters and jailing and torturing journalists and political opponents.
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President Xi Jinping has overseen a sweeping campaign to root out corruption since coming to power more than six years ago, jailing dozens of senior officials.
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As the movement to overhaul cash bail has challenged the constitutionality of jailing these defendants, judges and sheriffs have turned to monitors as an appealing substitute.
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Instead, we gave it because we believe Trump's language and actions have enabled the repressive leaders around the world who are jailing journalists in record numbers.
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The prince, 59, the queen's second son, has been dogged by questions over his friendship with Epstein since his jailing in 2008 for child sex offences.
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Now, a year after the authorities quelled protests over land grabs and the jailing of a local leader, Wukan is locked in a stifling security squeeze.
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Asked about China's jailing of journalists at a press briefing in Beijing Wednesday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying was dismissive, saying U.S.-based institutions lacked credibility.
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But several of these new presidents have tightened their grip on power by engineering an extension of their terms, jailing opponents and intimidating and imprisoning journalists.
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A monthlong protest in 2014 ended with more than 40 people from both camps dead, and resulted in the jailing of the opposition leader Leopoldo López.
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Brownback raised the jailing of Robinson during a meeting with Darroch that covered a range of "religious freedom issues", the British official confirmed earlier this week.
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During his autocratic rule, he won repeated elections with nearly 100 percent of the vote each time, often jailing political opponents or journalists who criticized him.
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But activists say Suu Kyi's government has failed to use its parliamentary majority to amend draconian laws or even express opposition to the jailing of dissidents.
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"We need either many more jails or we need to stop jailing people as frequently," criminal defense attorney Daniel Brown told VICE News in an interview.
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Since the military took power, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has presided over a wide-scale crackdown on dissent, banning unauthorized protests and jailing thousands of people.
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Jenny's lawyer, Sean Buckley, has since filed a lawsuit against the county and several authorities involved in the jailing, including the prosecutor who requested she be jailed.
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The government does not have the ability to block individual pages on Facebook, but the jailing of its critics has made them much quieter and more cautious.
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Moroccan authorities have already charged 11 people with involuntary manslaughter, jailing eight of them, including two interior ministry officials, two local fisheries officials and a veterinary chief.
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" Jailing Lavin, Jeremy Richardson QC [prosecuting attorney] told her: "How an intelligent young woman, as you are, could do such a foolish thing is almost beyond understanding.
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The decades-long strategy of outlawing drugs and jailing users, while battling cartels that control the trade, has come under increasing fire from critics in recent years.
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The arrests come days after the United Nations condemned the jailing of activist Tran Thi Nga for nine years on charges of spreading propaganda against the state.
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Xi has presided over the anti-graft drive since coming to power in late 2012, punishing more than a million party members and jailing top military figures.
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Police departments (well, some of them) are shifting from zero-tolerance policies and jailing those in need of help towards directing them to rehabilitation programs and facilities.
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Sitting aside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Oval Office earlier this year, he eschewed any public lectures on widespread jailing of dissidents and journalists.
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Yanukovych was in the midst of a power struggle with another prominent Ukrainian politician, which he decided to solve by jailing her in the fall of 2011.
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Similarly, investment in voluntary drug treatment and mental health support systems would reduce the harm of substance abuse without adding the harm of arrest, jailing and fining.
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" He went on to call the arrest and jailing of two Reuters journalists last year "deeply troubling," and emphasized the importance of a "free and independent press.
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Mr. Putin's government has cracked down hard on dissent — spying on, jailing, and, critics charge, sometimes assassinating opponents while consolidating control over the news media and internet.
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Critics say Issoufou used repression ahead of the vote, including arresting opposition supporters and jailing opposition leader Hama Amadou over charges related to a baby-trafficking ring.
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Even before the attempted coup, he made a worrisome habit of jailing his enemies: journalists who claimed he supported Islamist rebels, academics for criticizing his Kurdish policy.
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Hasm, the Arabic word for decisiveness, accused judges of sentencing thousands of innocent defendants to death, or jailing them for life, at the behest of the military.
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Activists say the jailing of the prayer leaders is a reminder that Muslims across the Southeast Asian nation face forms of discrimination and curbs on basic rights.
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The European Court of Human Rights last year ruled against Spain for jailing two activists for burning pictures of former king Juan Carlos, Felipe's father, in 2007.
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Pence decided to push the bill after reading a Times editorial criticizing the jailing of Judith Miller, a former Times reporter, according to the Columbia Journalism Review.
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He said during an interview shortly after his victory he would prioritize deporting or jailing any undocumented immigrants who were members of gangs or had criminal records.
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The jailing of Mr. da Silva, known universally as Lula, most likely ends his effort to return to the presidency, which he held from 2003 to 2011.
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Medina said she had heard U.S. authorities were jailing asylum seekers and had even separated parents from children, but she said she had to take the risk.
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In some ways, the finale was a compendium of "Thrones" greatest hits: There was yet another regicide, yet another jailing of Tyrion, yet another scattering of Starks.
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CLEVELAND — It's pretty disturbing to hear a large crowd at a major party convention repeatedly call for the jailing of the leader of the other major party.
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In the past, Mr. Maduro's government has quashed challenges to his rule by jailing opposition leaders, forcing them to flee the country or disqualifying them from elections.
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said in an executive order that he planned to keep families together by jailing parents and children together during their immigration hearings.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A scandal involving a Brazilian construction giant has widened with the jailing of Ecuador's vice president as part of an investigation into accusations of bribery.
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The study was used by Mr. Yanukovych's allies to rebut international criticism that the prosecution and jailing of Ms. Tymoshenko was politically motivated and lacked sufficient evidence.
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Judge Akay's jailing was condemned on Thursday by Judge Theodor Meron, the president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, which is overseen by the United Nations.
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Trump appeared to sound a different tone about jailing Clinton immediately after his win earlier this month, despite months of "lock her up" chants at his rallies.
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Pretrial detention, which involves jailing people who have been arrested for a crime but not yet convicted of it, comes with enormous costs, to individuals and society.
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Maryland did not secede from the Union only because of the suspension of habeas corpus by President Abraham Lincoln and the selective jailing of the state legislature.
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Ortega, who was Venezuela's chief prosecutor for over a decade, long adhered to the ruling Socialist Party line and her office spearheaded the jailing of political foes.
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Several hundred Muslim protesters stood outside the Jakarta court, calling for the jailing of Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese politician, known by his nickname Ahok.
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States and cities could use the cost savings from jailing fewer people to pay for EM. Instead, many see poor people as yet another source of revenue.
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RT said Butina had taken part in the show last week and defended the jailing of several Russian opposition activists at anti-Kremlin protests earlier this year.
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RT said Butina had taken part in the show last week and defended the jailing of several Russian opposition activists at anti-Kremlin protests earlier this year.
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From Trump's crowds came cries that Clinton is a "demon" and a "witch," cries that she is "evil" and "sick," and calls for her jailing and assassination.
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The twist is that their father, Reed, works a prosecutor who specializes in jailing mutants, making a living by detailing the threats that mutants present to society.
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Since toppling President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013, Sisi's government has cracked down on the opposition, killing hundreds of Brotherhood supporters and jailing thousands.
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The reasons for the jailing of six of those rescued was still being investigated, said Abdul Qadir Bahadurzai, a deputy spokesman for the army's 215th Maiwand military corps.
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Hasm, the Arabic word for decisiveness, has accused judges of sentencing thousands of innocent people to death, or jailing them for life, at the behest of the military.
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Frustrated by this, and by the government's failure to reduce crime by jailing large numbers of people, aboriginals in Bourke decided to take matters into their own hands.
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Secrecy, says Nicholas Bequelin of Amnesty International, an NGO, is paramount in China's handling of dissidents: the government often treats details of their arrest and jailing as classified.
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A slew of scandals, from the jailing of his close associates to the caging of migrant children at the border, have had little measurable effect on his popularity.
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During Sunday's debate, Kasparov took to Twitter to imagine Trump's first day in office, saying crackdowns on media and the jailing of political opponents "was also Putin's checklist."
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When the closure of bureaus and Egypt's jailing of journalists failed to induce its compliance, Gulf governments signed an agreement with Qatar in 2013 to curb its media.
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Trump himself has pledged to improve troubled US relationships, including with Russia, where President Vladimir Putin is accused of cracking down on free speech and jailing political opponents.
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Navalny has called that move and others, including the jailing of several protesters, part of a coordinated and trumped up campaign to stifle the anti-Kremlin opposition's activities.
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" Coons, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he has traveled and worked with countries where threatening to and then jailing a political opponent is "common practice.
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Beijing has cracked down on free expression since Xi became party boss in 2012, detaining and jailing activists and lawyers, muzzling internet critics and strengthening restrictions on journalists.
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Thousands of people marched in temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) to the Court of Final Appeal, carrying placards and banners denouncing the jailing of the activists.
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Led by hardline former President Alvaro Uribe, the "No" side was outraged the accord offered the FARC ten congressional seats and did not foresee jailing the rebels' leaders.
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Again borrowing from Lenin's lexicon, Mr Lukashenko consolidated power by coercion, jailing rivals and journalists, disbanding protests and earning Western sanctions and a reputation as "Europe's last dictator".
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The mere fact that an abortion is taking a life—if that is truly what you believe—is not enough to justify jailing little girls for getting one.
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President Xi Jinping has waged war against deep-rooted corruption since taking office five years ago, jailing or meting out lesser punishments to hundreds of thousands of officials.
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Patten, who spoke extensively during a recent Hong Kong visit and was critical of the jailing of several democracy activists, has angered some in the pro-Beijing establishment.
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Sharif's jailing could benefit his party, however, with some analysts saying it could make PML-N more palatable to the military now it is controlled by his brother.
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It recounts his youth and studies in West Africa, his enslavement in Charleston, and his escape, recapture, jailing and eventual sale to a brother of North Carolina's governor.
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His defense team hopes that the Supreme Court will rule that jailing him before he had exhausted his appeals was unconstitutional, but other investigations against him are underway.
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Now he has made clear that while Mr. Berberoglu's jailing is the catalyst, the march is not about one party, but about forging a broad coalition for justice.
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She was known as a fairly aggressive prosecutor during her tenure as Hennepin County Attorney, and she was pushed onstage about why she supported jailing nonviolent drug offenders.
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Manafort sought to prevent US legislators from imposing sanctions against Ukraine and condemning Yanukovych after the jailing of Yulia Tymoshenko, a political rival and former Ukrainian prime minister.
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Crime has fallen dramatically nationwide, but the United States still has the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and spends an estimated $80 billion a year on jailing.
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"Ten years ago, we were jailing people for marijuana," said Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at Harvard who conducted the poll of 22009,213 Americans.
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Like any authoritarian monarch worth his bone saw, Prince Mohammed doesn't brook criticism, which is why he has overseen the Saudis' increased jailing of journalists, critics and rivals.
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"Instead of jailing them, Israel should fairly identify and protect refugees among them," said Gerry Simpson, associate refugee director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement last month.
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The sentence against Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian, appears to be retribution for Canada's jailing of a senior Chinese executive on a U.S. warrant for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran.
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Over the past few years he's consolidated his power by shutting down opposition media, jailing those who speak against him and stifling dissent, particularly in the form of protest.
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Rights groups have accused Bahrain of escalating a crackdown on the opposition over the past two years by jailing some activists and revoking citizenship of others and expelling them.
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Some Democrats have urged the use of Congress' so-called inherent contempt powers, which would include the prospect of jailing or fining those who don't comply with congressional subpoenas.
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For the last month, hundreds of thousands of people have joined demonstrations in Spain to voice their objection to the jailing of Catalan separatist leaders and support Catalonian independence.
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Pence also addressed the jailing of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar who had been investigating deaths of Rohingya, telling Suu Kyi it was "deeply troubling to millions of Americans."
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Along with fracturing the political opposition — including pressuring Sam Rainsy into exile and jailing his successor, Kem Sokha — Hun Sen&aposs government also silenced critical voices in the media.
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More recently, liberals have called for the war crimes prosecution and jailing of Bush administration officials, while conservatives impeached a sitting Democratic president on the flimsy pretense of perjury.
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Socialist-run Venezuela has for years had tumultuous relations with Washington, and a rapprochement also led by Shannon stalled last year over the jailing of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.
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But as the garment industry returns to business as usual, critics say that the jailing of labor leaders and the expiration of safeguards show that little has been learned.
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It seems extremely unlikely that Trump or whomever he appoints as his next FBI director would put much emphasis on the jailing of journalists who report on classified information.
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The statement by Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani capped a week of heightened rhetoric over the jailing and disappearance of Americans in Iran and new U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Gove urged critics to stop focusing on Johnson's role in the case and instead to question the motivation of what he called "the Iranian regime" in jailing Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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Venezuela's murder rate is one of the world's highest, and foes say the state has morphed into dictatorship by jailing protesters, sidelining congress, and dragging its feet on elections.
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Having twice honored imprisoned writers during the junta, we at PEN America lauded the advent of reform, hoping that the jailing of writers was a thing of the past.
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While it often takes decades and seismic geopolitical changes, determined victims can succeed in jailing the men who once assumed they could kill and jail citizens arbitrarily with impunity.
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Vietnam's jailing of political dissidents has dampened relations with U.S., and the move is being seen as a gesture of goodwill ahead of bilateral talks scheduled during Obama's visit.
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Today, EU officials say limits on press freedoms, mass jailing and shrinking civil rights make it almost impossible at the present time for Turkey to meet EU joining criteria.
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Chen did not go as far as jailing Burga, as Mace had asked, but barred him from leaving his residence without Udolf and from using a phone or computer.
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Justice Minister Rafael Catala hit back, saying the jailing of the leaders of the separatist groups, the Catalan National Assembly and Omnium, was a judicial, not a political, decision.
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Iceland has struggled to recover from the collapse of its highly indebted banks, which led to popular protests, the fall of a government, and the jailing of many bankers.
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For instance, the Obama Justice Department had wanted to revamp the police department in Ville Platte, La., where officers have a long history of jailing people without probable cause.
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Instead, he has built a reputation for brutality and repression, torturing and killing hundreds of Egyptians and jailing perhaps as many as 1053,000 others, including students and American citizens.
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Iran's clerical regime has stifled one of the great civilizations, preventing so many of Iran's youth from realizing their full potential, and mercilessly jailing and killing the regime's opponents.
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They held Mr. Rajoy's administration responsible, alongside Spain's judiciary, for jailing many of their leaders on charges of rebellion after their botched attempt to declare unilateral independence in October.
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On Wednesday, President Trump said in an executive order that he planned to keep families together by jailing parents and children together during the course of their immigration hearings.
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Since the putsch, authorities have carried out a sustained security crackdown, jailing about 80,000 people, dismissing 150,000 civil servants, military personnel and others, and closing some 180 media organizations.
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On Wednesday, demonstrators blocked dozens of roads and railway lines across Catalonia as part of a general strike protesting the recent jailing of former members of the regional government.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian performance artist arrested for setting fire to the door of Russia's domestic intelligence service was freed on Wednesday after a court decided against jailing him.
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While Venezuela suffers from a harsh economic crisis, President Nicolas Maduro's government has clamped down on the opposition, jailing or otherwise barring from office many dissenting leaders and activists.
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Mr. Arpaio was convicted last month of criminal contempt for his tactics in hunting down and jailing immigrants in the country illegally, but he was pardoned before his sentencing.
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And they should insist that all abuses — including the killing of protesters and the jailing of political prisoners — are properly investigated and that those responsible are brought to justice.
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But the backlash to the jailing of a longtime employee after a labor dispute has made it clear that people in China are starting to sour on the company.
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He argues that the ruling was only meant to give lower courts the possibility of jailing someone after their first appeal, but that in practice it had become mandatory.
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Cities from Las Vegas to Redding, California, will have to build more homeless shelters before they think about ticketing and jailing poor people just for sleeping on the streets.
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Thousands of people marched in sweltering temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86°F) to the Court of Final Appeal, carrying placards and banners denouncing the jailing of the activists.
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Instead, it would ensure that governance occasionally falls to sober, responsible leaders who can enact moderate policies like breaking up migrant families at the border and jailing their children.
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At the time the fund is said to have been in operation, the country was facing allegations of corruption and abuses, including the jailing of political opponents and journalists.
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Myanmar denies widespread wrongdoing and officials have pointed to the jailing of the seven soldiers in the Inn Din case as evidence Myanmar security forces do not enjoy impunity.
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"For years now, Donald Trump has been calling for the jailing of his critics and has lauded violence against journalists," said U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat.
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He is unlikely to relinquish his influence anytime soon, as he's crushed dissent in the media, which included jailing hundreds of journalists and shuttering dozens of independent media outlets.
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Pelosi said that reviving Congress' long-dormant powers to punish those who are in contempt — which include jailing or fining those who don't comply with subpoenas — is on the table.
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Pence also said that Washington wanted to see a free and democratic press in Myanmar, and the jailing of two journalists last year was "deeply troubling" for millions of Americans.
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Mercosur triggered its democratic clause this year and expelled Venezuela due to authoritarian moves by President Nicolas Maduro such as the delaying of elections and the jailing of opposition leaders.
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Later, at age 15, I watched a South African woman on Nigerian television talking to journalists about the political system of apartheid and the jailing of her husband, Nelson Mandela.
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These include the jailing of activists, a ban on a pro-independence political party, the de facto expulsion of a Western journalist and barring democracy activists from contesting local elections.
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In the wake of the failed rebellion, Erdogan notoriously cracked down on journalists and supposed dissidents, jailing thousands of Turkish citizens and officials accused of conspiring with Gulen against him.
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They point to Ankara's track record -- attacking US allies, buying Russian weapons systems, jailing Americans, including consular employees, and its steady march away from democracy toward a more authoritarian system.
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Last year, a ministry spokeswoman said there was no such thing as a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam, following the jailing of human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai last April.
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President Xi Jinping has mounted a sweeping campaign against deep-rooted corruption since taking office five years ago, jailing or meting out lesser punishments to hundreds of thousands of officials.
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Bahrain has stepped up a crackdown on critics, shutting down two main political groups, revoking the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the Shi'ite Muslim community and jailing rights campaigners.
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That's a venture capital firm based in the United Arab Emirates, a small Persian Gulf nation notorious for censorship, surveillance, and jailing of internet users who criticize the local monarchy.
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This approach presents significant costs to the local, state, or federal governments jailing them, and it also denies individuals the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to their families and communities.
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Brazil's record of jailing human traffickers is poor, and some experts said the ruling would make it harder for defendants to use delaying tactics to escape punishment in the future.
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Venezuela is suffering from a harsh economic crisis and President Nicolas Maduro's government has clamped down on the opposition, jailing or otherwise barring from office many dissenting leaders and activists.
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The decree comes after public outrage over the jailing of ex-Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who many believe was unfairly targeted and represents the crumbling of Indonesia's pluralistic tradition.
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The Carter administration pushed the Shah to liberalize, which he willingly did, freeing prisoners, opening jails to international inspection and plotting free elections, while jailing some of his own officials.
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Chief among them is an old imbalance between, on the one hand, a fearsome appetite for prosecuting and jailing people, and, on the other, a reluctance to foot the bill.
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We hear from first responders, investigators, journalists, and parents of children trapped in the first floor daycare center, as well as those who later witnessed McVeigh's testimony, jailing, and death.
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At the same time, Erdogan has led a crackdown on the press, with the state jailing critical journalists and academics en masse and closing down opposition outlets; scarcely any remain.
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Urge more players to follow the example of airline companies and refuse to take part in the jailing of kids and families –the Trump administration can't do it without them.
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Moreover, American officials are being criticized for trying to keep out people fleeing gang violence in Central America, even jailing children who show up at the border without legal papers.
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Opposition websites alleged that Mr. Karimov beat his daughter in a fit of rage before jailing some of her associates and confining her to her home, where she remains incommunicado.
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The Iranian currency is collapsing; capital flight is growing; the middle class is rebelling, as are minorities; and government repression has accelerated including beatings, jailing, extrajudicial executions, and arbitrary arrests.
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Malaysian states, which have their own laws governing Islamic affairs, do not allow Muslims to formally renounce Islam, preferring instead to send them for counseling, or fining or jailing them.
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But it faces criticism from human rights groups for jailing activists, including Ahmed Mansoor, an Emirati who is serving a 10-year sentence for criticizing the government on social media.
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From the White House, Trump attacked "globalists" -- a classic anti-Semitic trope -- and laughed at the suggestion of jailing George Soros, a frequent Jewish target of Trump and anti-Semites.
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Turkey remains the world's worst offender of jailing journalists for the second consecutive time, with 2628 journalists behind bars, compared with 28503 last year, according an annual report by CPJ.
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If that murder is a fact, it is certainly a heinous act, but what about the ongoing actions, including the jailing, torture and killing of dissidents, of the Egyptian government?
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It has had notable success in fighting organized crime and led to the jailing of former president Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president for overseeing a customs-fraud network.
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The crown prince often was the focus of his criticism, with recent columns slamming him for "peddling revisionist history," for jailing prominent women's rights activists and for stifling free speech.
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Police detained over 2,000 people at this summer's protests in Moscow, which began in mid-July, with courts jailing some of those who took part for up to four years.
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Sure, Iran is a bad actor, but Saudi Arabia murdered, dismembered and apparently boiled in acid the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and it's been jailing women who pushed for driving rights.
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Yanukovych was in the midst of a power struggle with another prominent Ukrainian politician, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, which he decided to solve by jailing her in the fall of 2011.
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The security chief spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a fear of being targeted by the government, which has a history of jailing individuals who discuss sensitive issues.
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Jailing Mr. da Silva knocked him out of the race for president, clearing the way for the election of Mr. Bolsonaro — who then appointed Mr. Moro as his justice minister.
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Some critics called Tuesday's arrest "politically motivated" given the long-standing animosity between Najib and Mahathir, his ex-mentor and a former autocrat who is no stranger to jailing opponents.
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In recent weeks, Trump has begun calling for the jailing of Clinton and her lawyer over her use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state.
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The federal government should redirect the billions of dollars it spends jailing migrants — $2.7 billion alone in 2017 for ICE's detention system — to helping them navigate the labyrinthine legal process.
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Iceland has struggled to recover from the 2008 collapse of its highly indebted banks, which led to popular protests, the fall of a government and the jailing of many bankers.
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But recent political events, including the jailing of the country's president and its top corporate executive amid corruption allegations, stand to halt what has been a steady economic march forward.
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In an escalating row over LGBT+ rights, Zambia last month criticised U.S. ambassador Daniel Foote after he condemned the southern African country for jailing the two men for 15 years.
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On the campaign trail, Warren has called for breaking up big tech companies and jailing corporate CEOs, and she has proposed a sweeping anti-corruption bill as her first priority.
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The Trump administration has withdrawn the U.S. ambassador to Zambia after the country's government became incensed over the diplomat's criticism of the country's highest court for jailing a gay couple.
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However, the authoritarian pursued a more regressive path after the attempted takeover, clamping down on the media, jailing activists and changing the law to give his office almost unlimited power.
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The BNP is in disarray following the jailing early this year on corruption charges of Khaleda, on what the party says were trumped-up charges to keep her out of politics.
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The jailing of the two journalists cast a pall over Myanmar's media community and sparked increased international criticism of the nation's de facto leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Around 100 Muslim protesters calling for the jailing of Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama chanted "God is great" outside the court, while supporters of the ethnic Chinese Christian sang the national anthem.
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The U.S. unquestionably holds all the powerful cards, and it would be an unforgivable mistake to compromise that situation with partisan fights calling for impeachment and jailing of a sitting president.
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The investigation and related probes have led to the jailing of several of the country&aposs elite, from former Odebrecht CEO Marcelo Odebrecht to ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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With the jailing of Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for corruption, Bolsonaro, a seven-term congressman, leads a fragmented field with five months to go until the election.
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Farris added that risk assessments should be conducted by an independent agency, rather than probation officials, and the law should have put a preference on releasing people rather than jailing them.
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The IMF said in November that Ukraine needed to pass a suitable budget and step up efforts to fight corruption — including by jailing crooked officials — in order to secure more loans.
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Melbourne newspaper Herald Sun dubbed the game "Australia's Fyre Festival", in reference to the aborted 2017 music festival in the Bahamas which resulted in lawsuits and the jailing of the promoter.
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President Xi Jinping has mounted a sweeping campaign against deep-rooted corruption since taking office almost five years ago, jailing or meting out lesser punishments to hundreds of thousands of officials.
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The jailing of the two journalists cast a pall over Myanmar's media community and sparked increased international criticism of the nation's de facto leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Odebrecht has been at the heart of Brazil's "Car Wash" probe, which rippled across Latin America and led to the jailing of scores of business and political figures across the region.
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For the lack of cooler heads prevailing in the GOP, millions of people now see jailing Clinton as the only way to get what they feel has been taken from them.
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As Vice President Biden addresses in his plan, cash bail is a modern-day debtors' prison and we must stop jailing people for being too poor to pay fines and fees.
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Brazil has taken multiple actions — including jailing a Facebook executive — to persuade the social media network to provide law enforcement a functional method of surveilling criminal suspects who use the service.
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Enumerating the incidents one by one, Padron drew a parallel with the jailing of priests and hostility toward the church in 1958 near the end of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez' rule.
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Pence also brought up the jailing of two Reuters reporters who were sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty in September of breaching the country's Official Secrets Act.
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"The situation in Catalonia has mobilized right-wing voters," he added, referring to anger about pro-independence street riots in the regional capital Barcelona following the jailing of nine separatist leaders.
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Since coming to power in 2012, however, Mr Xi's onslaught has resulted in the jailing of several of the most senior figures ever to be convicted of graft under Communist rule.
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Foes say Maduro, 53, has veered openly into dictatorship by sidelining the opposition-led congress, jailing opponents and then leaning on compliant judicial and electoral authorities to stop a recall referendum.
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Critics say Hong Kong's rights landscape has deteriorated in recent years amid a spate of controversies, including the jailing of young activists and disqualifications of pro-democracy lawmakers from the legislature.
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Others, like Nguyen Trang Nhung, describe their candidacies as a direct challenge to a government that often faces heavy criticism from international human rights groups over its jailing of political dissidents.
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Critics accuse Sisi's government of presiding over the most serious crackdown on dissent since 2011, jailing thousands of people, most of them Islamists but also including liberals who opposed his policies.
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Prince Mohammed defended the recent jailing of more than 380 princes, businessmen and former government ministers in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh as part of a campaign to stamp out corruption.
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After a series of scuffles between college students and the police in July 1999, officers raided a dormitory at the University of Tehran, wounding at least 20 people and jailing 125.
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But China was at best a compromised claimant to that role, given its preferential credit for state-owned companies, its theft of intellectual property and its jailing of dissidents and journalists.
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Still, decades after those cases were decided, the practice of jailing people who cannot pay persists, not least because Supreme Court decisions do not always make their way to local courts.
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A report from the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, released in April, put the direct cost of jailing someone at Rikers at $247,903 per year.
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Maduro has responded to public protests by jailing and killing dissenters ; death squads aligned with the government have assassinated at least seven thousand people in the past year and a half.
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Hours before announcing the revocation, Indian officials imposed a blanket of tough security measures, cutting off the internet and phone services and jailing thousands of Kashmiri political leaders, academics and activists.
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Human Rights Watch and even the State Department have accused Ethiopia's ruling party of displacing thousands of citizens, gunning down hundreds of protesters and jailing or torturing political opponents and journalists.
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Critics say Issoufou has used political repression in the run-up to the vote, arresting opposition supporters and jailing opposition leader Hama Amadou over charges related to a baby-trafficking ring.
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But protests against the jailing of nine separatist leaders who led a 2017 independence referendum have been raging for five consecutive days, and Spain's soccer league made an almost unthinkable call.
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Along with jailing dissidents and using excessive force — in one case, killing 20 civilians in a paramilitary action — Mr. Rahmon's police forces have been accused of more unusual human rights abuses.
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Since the coup attempt, the government has focused on jailing officials of the H.D.P. and its local sister parties, arresting at least 45 mayors of Kurdish towns beginning in late October.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has widened a crackdown against Jehovah's Witnesses, jailing six adherents of the Christian denomination for extremism in a move rights activists said was unjust and flouted religious freedom.
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In 2012, he reportedly paid Gregory Craig, a former counsel for the Obama White House, to write a report intended to exonerate Ukraine's pro-Russian President for jailing his chief opponent.
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After his recent jailing, Robinson became a cause célèbre for many on the British and American right who say his case is an example of the government censoring critics of Islam.
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Trump is undercutting US intelligence, refusing to state what they've concluded and giving equal weight to the denials from a dictator with a history of jailing, torturing, and even executing dissidents.
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The turnout at the handover protest in 2018 was one of the lowest ever after the disqualification of pro-democracy legislators and the jailing of some of the most prominent activists.
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Before his jailing, Mr López, an economist educated in the United States, led the salida ("exit") movement, a radical part of the opposition that argued for Mr Maduro's negotiated departure from power.
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It teaches us, for example, that Trump has advocated jailing people or denying them citizenship for burning flags and that Pence has called for a ban on LGBT people in the military.
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Writing in the New York Times, Lula falsely stated that his jailing "has nothing to do with corruption" and is "for political reasons", but rightly said that "millions of Brazilians" believe this.
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Garcia told the AP that he believes that the Constitution's treason clause in Article III allows for the jailing or killing of "enemies" of the U.S., which he believed to mean socialists.
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They include Tehran's jailing of American-Iranian dual nationals, seizure of American sailors who had strayed into Iranian waters, ballistic missile activity and its continued role as a state sponsor of terrorism.
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Last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lifted all human rights conditions on the sale of F-16 jets to Bahrain, a country accused of jailing political dissidents without legal due process.
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In a statement, federal prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro asked for the temporary jailing of Tânia Maria Aragão de Souza Fonseca and Robson Luiz Cunha Silva, both bank managers in the city.
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Lula's downfall has been as stunning as the unprecedented corruption probes that have convulsed Brazil for the last four years, jailing dozens of politicians and business leaders long considered above the law.
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In between jailing immigrant children and attempting to force an accused sex offender onto the Supreme Court, the government has dealt with the pressing issue of the legal definition of various foods.
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Phrae was one stop in a series of provincial trips aimed at keeping Yingluck, Thailand's first female prime minister, in the public eye and making the junta think twice about jailing her.
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However, the mainland has tightened its grip in recent years through acts like jailing anti-government activists, removing pro-democracy leaders, and building costly infrastructure to better connect itself to Hong Kong.
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To restore order, Bolsonaro has tapped Justice Minister Sergio Moro, a former judge who made his name jailing scores of Brazil's political and business elite in the sweeping "Car Wash" corruption investigation.
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Yet for many at the newspaper, the mass jailing and terrorism convictions of its staff — actions that the newspaper's lawyer, Tora Pekin, described as "irrational" and "so wrong" — surpasses all previous ordeals.
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Thousands of people took to the streets in Catalan cities to protest the jailing of the politicians, which follows the detention of two other separatist leaders last month on grounds of sedition.
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President Paul Kagame and his government, which has a record of suppressing dissent and jailing critics, gave no indication what prompted them to free the prisoners, whose detention had drawn international condemnation.
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Since then, with his new ultranationalist allies, Mr. Erdogan has reverted back to all the hawkishness of the "Old Turkey" that he used to oppose — including jailing or ousting elected Kurdish politicians.
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The large rally followed days of unrest in Barcelona and other Catalan cities to protest the jailing of nine separatist leaders over a failed bid to break away from Spain in 2017.
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Cuyahoga County has said it will use the funds to expand residential treatment beds, increase emergency care follow-up and to create alternatives to jailing low-level drug offenders, among other initiatives.
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Instead of spending more on jailing those accused of low-level, non violent crimes before trial, they would be better directed towards fighting violence in cities struggling across the country, like Chicago.
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Garcia's predecessor, Alejandro Toledo, is wanted in Peru for preventive jailing after prosecutors accused him of taking $20 million in bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for help winning two lucrative highway contracts.
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This spiral of mobilization and violence tends to strengthen the hand of government hard-liners who call for the jailing, exile and even banning of the populists in a retreat into authoritarianism.
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In 2014 Turkey's leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slammed Mr. Sisi as a "tyrant" — a moniker that could arguably apply to both men now, given their penchant for crushing dissent and jailing journalists.
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Across the country, some police commanders have concluded that leaving a crime unsolved is sometimes a better alternative to relying on a procedure that elevates the risk of jailing an innocent person.
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By identifying individual Russian military and intelligence hackers with charges, U.S. authorities could make it difficult for them to travel, but arrests and jailing would be unlikely, according to the Journal report.
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On Sunday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to decry the jailing of Wong, and two other democracy activists - Nathan Law and Alex Chow - for between six and eight months.
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Hun Sen has cracked down on the independent press and civil society over the past few months, dissolving the opposition party that Sam Rainsy once led and jailing the party's leader, Kem Sokha.
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As recently as December 2016, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama era guidance that urged courts to prohibit jailing poor people who could not afford to pay traffic tickets or court fines.
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In Belgium, where militants planned the Paris attacks after training in Syria, nearly half a billion euros will be spent jailing returning jihadists, reinforcing borders and keeping hundreds of troops on the streets.
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He was responsible for the jailing of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former president from the left-wing Workers' Party, who has come to represent everything Mr Bolsonaro and his supporters despise.
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Satisfying though the jailing of Mr Singh was for many Indians, his trial had dragged on for well over a decade: the rapes for which he was convicted occurred between 1999 and 2001.
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Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's former finance minister and a leader of the opposition alliance that won the recent general election, was released from prison on the ground that his jailing had been politically motivated.
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The Gülen dispute and the jailing of US government employees are very bad for the relationship between the two countries, but it's possible that sustained diplomacy behind the scenes can smooth things over.
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The court ruled that jailing Robinson so promptly "gave rise to unfairness," and that the "haste" with which the case was dealt with meant his lawyers weren&apost given enough time to prepare.
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The deal was later implicated in a corruption scandal which led to the jailing of the country's former president and bribery charges against Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, who denies any wrongdoing.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Democratic Republic of Congo's jailing of a warlord for sexual slavery shows it is cracking down on a longstanding culture of impunity, rights groups and lawyers said on Wednesday.
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Since an edited video of Ahok's remarks was released, hundreds of thousands of Muslim Indonesians have protested against him on the streets of Jakarta, with many calling for his jailing or even execution.
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In response, Justice Minister Rafael Catala told reporters on Tuesday the jailing of Jordi Sanchez of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Omnium's Jordi Cuixart was a judicial decision, not a political one.
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KIEV (Reuters) - U.S Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday she was encouraged by signs of commitment to reform from Ukraine's new government and urged Kiev to start jailing corrupt officials.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A senior Pakistani judge was sacked on Friday following a scandal over blackmail claims relating to the jailing of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption charges, the law ministry said.
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The BNP, which is in disarray after the jailing of its chief, former prime minister Khaleda Zia, on corruption charges, also pressed for a caretaker government at the last general election in 2014.
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Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame's human rights violations are legion: the assassination of critical journalists, sponsorship of death squads in the Congolese jungle, the use of international hitmen, and the jailing of political opponents.
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But Trump already sounds like he's starting to soften on that pledge and said in a Friday interview with the Wall Street Journal that he hasn't considered jailing Clinton since winning the election.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police arrested 18 protesters on Tuesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma during a peaceful demonstration over the jailing of two fellow activists, the United Nations said.
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Among other measures, Mr. Manafort orchestrated a widely panned 2012 report by an American law firm to try to tamp down criticism of the Ukraine government for prosecuting and jailing of Ms. Tymoshenko.
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He has championed UK far-right causes such as the jailing of the British anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson, helping to turn the case into a cause celebre for the American populist right.
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Under General Vlad, the more than 10,000 crack troops of Ceausescu's Securitate, or state security department, were accused of suppressing dissent by torturing, jailing and killing protesters or confining them in mental wards.
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If the district court agrees that the subpoena is valid, it can order compliance, backed by its own contempt powers in the event of continued intransigence, including jailing the offender until he complies.
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Xi has also gone after competing power bases by jailing opponents for corruption, including the powerful former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang and the popular one-time party boss of Chongqing, Bo Xilai.
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The news should serve as a reminder of Vietnam's worsening record of jailing anyone who criticizes the regime, said Nicholas Bequelin, human rights group Amnesty International's regional director for east and southeast Asia.
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The practice of jailing migrant families has been fiercely debated over three administrations, in part because of years of scientific consensus that detaining children, even with their parents, can cause permanent developmental damage.
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against the jailing of three young democracy activists, with many questioning the independence of the Chinese-ruled city's judiciary.
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Solih's administration may now restore civil liberties that were previously restrained under Yameen's authoritarian regime, which was characterized by a deteriorating rule of law, the jailing of critics, religious fundamentalism and emergency rule.
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Her rapist writes it off as a consensual affair, and what Jules seems to want most of all — more than breaking his fingers or jailing him — is to have her own experience acknowledged.
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In response to the attacks, Oklahoma's governor declared martial law, called in the National Guard, and arrested all surviving black residents who weren't already imprisoned, jailing them for as long as eight days.
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The long arm of Castro's government reached deep into Cubans' lives and internal dissent was stifled with the assiduous harassment and jailing of opponents who Castro described as mercenaries working for the United States.
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Lavrynovych had hired Skadden to review the 2011 jailing of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who had received a seven-year sentence for allegedly harming Ukraine's interests in gas supply negotiations with Russia.
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Prince Mohammed also has been sharply criticized by human rights activists for waging a bombing campaign in Yemen, where thousands of civilians have been killed, and for cracking down on dissent by jailing bloggers.
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Critics led by the United States have slammed Maduro as a dictator and assailed him for clamping down on the country's opposition, jailing dissenters and nullifying the powers of its democratically-elected National Assembly.
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The government has since expanded the crackdown, jailing thousands of Kurdish activists, including 216 MPs, and kicking out the mayors of over 80 towns, on the ground that they have ties to the PKK.
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Manning's attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen argued that jailing Manning after she'd already shown that incarceration would not convince her to testify would transform the sanction into punishment, which is not allowed under federal law.
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Rights groups accuse him of jailing, torturing and killing his political opponents while acquiring a vast fortune - including luxury cars and an estate in the United States - as most of his people remained impoverished.
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Despite Donald Trump's law-and-order bombast, America's prison population is falling, even in Republican-controlled states, as the system realises that jailing people is an expensive way to turn them into better criminals.
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said in a September report that there was a nationwide problem of local courts imposing inordinate fees on the poor and jailing them if they did not pay.
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The point is that the president of the United States reportedly floated the idea of jailing journalists for reporting classified information in a one-on-one exchange with the then director of the FBI.
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Since taking office in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has adopted a zero-tolerance approach to dissent, tightened the party's grip over the legal profession and overseen the jailing of dozens of rights activists.
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As someone who writes about authoritarians, I'm not surprised that President Trump would like to take the next step of jailing journalists, as a leaked memo given to former FBI director James Comey reveals.
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My own mind is not at rest; at the moment, I'm all too conscious of the Chinese government's habit of jailing activists around Christmas, a down period for the media and the diplomatic services.
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" Suu Kyi has defended the reporters' jailing, saying at an event in Singapore earlier this year that they broke the law and their conviction had "nothing to do with freedom of expression at all.
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Human rights groups described these as trumped-up charges, staging a situation in which Maduro was likely to cynically use Holt's jailing as a bargaining chip for opening lines of communication with U.S. officials.
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The oil company has not pulled out of other tough environments in the past, the person said - citing the jailing of employees in Indonesia in 2013 - and the firm believes Venezuela will eventually stabilize.
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ANS TV is owned by three Azeri businessmen and is widely seen as independent in the oil-rich country, where President Ilham Aliyev is accused by opponents of muzzling dissent and jailing his critics.
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Analysts are uncertain if the gambit has paid off as the PML-N, energized by Sharif's jailing, has drawn large crowds of supporters to rallies in the province, whereas Khan's have been relatively muted.
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"Iran wants to silence these men by jailing them for standing by women who want the hijab to be a choice, not a requirement," said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of CHRI, in a statement.
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European officials have in the past often chided Erdogan for what his opponents say is creeping authoritarianism and an intolerance of dissent, including the jailing of critical journalists - charges denied by the Turkish leader.
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In Hong Kong, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to uphold the city's rule of law against China and called for its top legal official to resign over the recent jailing of democracy activists.
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Particular outrage has coalesced around the presence of Mr. Hun Sen, who has spent the past six months methodically jailing or exiling his political opponents and critics, in advance of elections scheduled for July.
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President Nicolás Maduro is running for another six-year term after more than a year of crackdowns against opponents that have included jailing popular political rivals and using force to put down street protests.
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Rights groups have criticized him for jailing dissidents at home, for his role in creating a humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and for backing the Saudi prince whose agents killed the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi.
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MADRID, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A Spanish judge on Friday ordered the closure of web pages linked to Democratic Tsunami, a secretive Catalan group behind huge protests against the jailing of secessionist leaders, police said.
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Warren's approach to the opioid crisis — which calls for treating victims and punishing perpetrators — largely mirrors her response to the financial crisis, when she called for jailing bankers and providing mass assistance for homeowners.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Groups representing journalists and lawyers in Myanmar handed a letter to the country's president on Friday outlining their concerns over the jailing of two Reuters reporters convicted of breaking state secrets laws.
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The campaign has led to the jailing or punishment of thousands of officials and also brought down dozens of senior party and military officials, including Zhou Yongkang, the much feared former domestic security chief.
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RABAT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Morocco's capital Rabat on Sunday to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the predominantly Berber region of Rif.
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The pacification of Wukan, where villagers had marched for over 80 days since mid-June in protest at the jailing of democratically elected village chief Lin Zuluan, was crucial to Hu's chances, the sources said.
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Separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who chairs the Hurriyat Conference of separatist groups, said arbitrary arrests and jailing of leaders, activists and young people for their political beliefs had happened across Kashmir for 30 years.
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He said his group, which took over the refuge on Saturday in protest at the jailing of two local ranchers convicted of arson, would hold its ground unless asked to leave by the local population.
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NAIROBI — Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Burundi government of beating and jailing people it thinks will vote against a constitutional amendment that would allow the country's current president to potentially serve until 2000.
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Drumm's conviction followed the jailing for up to three-and-a-half years of three former Anglo and Irish Life and Permanent executives in 2016 over the same scheme that helped bolster Anglo's balance sheet.
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And the sorts of stories these desks produced, which led to changes in state and federal law and the jailing of criminals, cost money — money that is increasingly gobbled up by Google, Apple, and Facebook.
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"Today's order is likely to have the effect of jailing families who are seeking safety for months and years," Karen Tumlin, director of legal strategy at the National Immigration Law Center, told reporters on Wednesday.
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But as Humala and Heredia languished in prison without any formal charges against them, some in Peru argued their jailing was unfair, especially as other political leaders, such as Humala's former rival Fujimori, remained free.
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They crush the political center by terrifying it into silence, by jailing anyone who calls for change, by killing or torturing opponents real or imagined, by co-opting others and driving the rest into exile.
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They hired a U.S. law firm called Skadden to write a report justifying the jailing of Tymoshenko, and funneled $4 million through offshore accounts to Skadden and others to pay it, according to court filings.
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While the bloody civil war was still years away, Assad had been in power since 2000, and his regime had already been denounced by international organizations for torturing, jailing dissidents, and imprisoning human rights lawyers.
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And, with increasing stridency, Trump has threatened to prosecute Hillary Clinton criminally and ensure her jailing (assuming she survives the assassination attempts Trump has dared to encourage), should he become President of the United States.
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The president survived a coup attempt last year and responded with a crackdown, jailing 47,000 people and sacking or suspending more than 120,000 from government jobs such as schoolteachers, soldiers, police, judges or other professionals.
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It is jailing parents for illegal entry — and because the children can't follow them to jail, they are separated and sent to either foster care or federal detention centers where they are held in cages.
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According to the GAP3 survey, 59 percent believed legal action against Puigdemont was unjustified while 69.3 percent said the jailing of the Catalan politicians would give the independence cause a boost at the ballot box.
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The World Economic Forum, among others, gave the Azeri regime a platform to talk about its financial success—which is used to whitewash crimes ranging from the jailing of dissidents to the theft of billions.
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A Louisiana federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds a proposed class action accusing the New Orleans criminal court system of unfairly jailing defendants who are unable to pay court costs.
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In a report released on Tuesday, Amnesty accused the government of "bending the law to their will" to crack down on dissent, and highlighted cases including the jailing of prominent land rights activist Tep Vanny.
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Clinton's jailing, wishing her death and denouncing her with unprintable gendered slurs, Mr. Trump has himself wondered aloud about the "Second Amendment people" who might take matters into their own hands if she is elected.
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He couldn't have known in advance that Wilcox was getting kickbacks from a privatized prison system for jailing minorities, but once Lonnie Watley snuffs it out, Chuck makes a five-course meal out of it.
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As a result of the commission's conclusions, President Ronald Reagan in 1988 signed the Civil Liberties Act, which apologized for indiscriminately jailing Japanese-Americans during the war without trial and awarded camp inmates $20,000 each.
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And it was the military who attempted a takeover of government Over the last few years, Erdogan has gone on a McCarthy-style witch hunt, jailing journalists and academics suspected of having connections to Gülenists.
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Months of protests and a polarizing election preceded Purnama's jailing in May 2017, raising concerns over the erosion of Indonesia's long-held reputation for pluralism and tolerance, and the creeping influence of Islam in politics.
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But we fail to understand that when money becomes scarce, unscrupulous regimes like those in North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela use fear and terror — including jailing or killing dissenters and their families — to enforce obedience.
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It explained that the courts had an obligation to ask people about their ability to pay before jailing them for nonpayment and were also bound to consider alternatives like community service or extended payment plans.
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Southerners sought to replace slave labor by jailing African-Americans on trumped-up charges and turning them over to, among others, sugar cane plantations in the region once known as the Sugar Bowl of Texas.
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Mr. Vuillemin said that although Mr. Nemmouche may not have helped Belgian investigators, he expects him to testify in trials he faces in France in connection with the jailing of four French hostages in Syria.
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Having grabbed virtually total power to govern at will, President Nicolás Maduro has wasted no time in jailing political opponents, resorting to torture and repression against students, and silencing the remaining critical news media outlets.
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While Trump has repeatedly insisted on jailing Hillary Clinton this week — a position that has appalled law enforcement officials of both parties — top surrogate Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, inched back from that brink.
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The opposition, which wants to unseat Maduro this year through a recall referendum, said his administration has cracked down on dissent by rounding up protesters and jailing high-profile figures, including opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.
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They belong to a loose grouping of Islamists behind protests that culminated in the election defeat and jailing for blasphemy in 2017 of Jakarta's ethnic-Chinese and Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Widodo ally.
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All of this is on top of Iran's already shoddy human rights record, which includes numerous cases of executing gays, jailing and beating women who don't cover their hair, and persecuting Muslim converts to Christianity.
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This is the context of Melania Trump's plagiarism, of Ted Cruz's anti-endorsement, of the night that was supposed to be about jobs and the economy but was actually about Benghazi and jailing Hillary Clinton.
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ON SECOND THOUGHT: The Hill's Julian Hattem reports:Donald Trump appears to be sounding a different note about jailing Hillary Clinton as president-elect, and it's unclear whether the Republican will stick to his earlier threat.
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Mr. Manafort had recruited Skadden Arps to write a report that he intended to use to allay Western human rights concerns about the Ukrainian government's prosecution and jailing of a political rival of Mr. Yanukovych.
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She previously raised the prospect of jailing Stone should he violate the gag order, and said that she would not give him "another chance," telling him this wasn't baseball (where he would get three strikes).
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Turkey's lira touched a record low against the dollar, weakening 4 percent in 24 hours after meetings in Washington looked to have made little progress in mending a row over Ankara's jailing of an American pastor.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar judge's verdict on Monday jailing two Reuters reporters for seven years over a breach of the country's official secrets acts was "deeply troubling", the U.S. ambassador to the southeast Asian nation said.
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Turkey's lira, bond and stocks markets were taking even more of a pounding after meetings between officials in Washington looked to have made little progress in mending a row over Ankara's jailing of an American pastor.
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Turkey's lira touched a record low against the dollar, weakening 103 percent in 24 hours after meetings in Washington looked to have made little progress in mending a row over Ankara's jailing of an American pastor.
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The case, reopened in October, is the first since a July decision by the Supreme Court declaring unconstitutional a 1993 amnesty law that banned investigating, prosecuting, or jailing people for war crimes or human rights violations.
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Since coming to power in a contested election in 2013, Yameen has been criticized for jailing opponents and restricting election observers and the media, and there had been fears that Sunday's election would an unfair contest.
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Relations were already strained by Turkey's decision to buy an antimissile system from Russia instead of the United States; the incarceration of an American pastor in Turkey; and the jailing of a Turkish banker in America.
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Barrow is still seeking to assert control following the end of 22 years of Jammeh's authoritarian rule under which the military served as a key pillar of a regime notorious for jailing and torturing political opponents.
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"The jailing of Onderoglu and (Fincanci), two of Turkey's most respected rights defenders, is a chilling sign human rights groups are the next target," said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
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However, since late 783 a heavy-handed response to protests — including the jailing of some English-speaking activists and sympathizers — has convinced many that only severance from Cameroon will satisfy their yearning for a better life.
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HANOI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentence, and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
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Because children cannot be held in immigration detention for long periods, the Trump administration has taken to jailing migrant parents and then sending their children into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Saudi Arabia, the bastion of Sunni Islam and a close U.S. ally, denies backing terrorism and has cracked down on jihadists at home, jailing thousands, stopping hundreds from traveling to fight abroad and cutting militant finances.
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Finally, how is the pardon situation likely to play out here, given talk of Obama preemptively bailing out everyone from Hillary Clinton to her aide Huma Abedin and Trump's insinuations during the campaign of jailing Clinton?
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In particular, the country's de facto leader Aung San Su Kyi — who herself was a political prisoner for many years — was criticized by human rights organizations and Western governments for defending the jailing of both journalists.
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Under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, which calls for prosecuting all who illegally enter the United States, Border Patrol agents at the southwestern border have been arresting and jailing adults, separating them from their children.
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Majority Leader McConnell cited civil rights legislation yesterday, as well he should, because he was alive to witness the harassment, jailing, and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government sworn to protect them.
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Mendes has been a main critic of the excessive use of plea bargains and provisional detentions of suspects in the sprawling Car Wash investigation that led to the jailing of high-profile politicians and construction executives.
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The investigation has been integral in exposing the corruption that permeates our country, revealing billions of dollars in illegal payments, jailing executives and bringing a sitting president into court on charges of violating campaign finance laws.
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"Jailing reporters would put us on par with nations like Turkey and China," said Robert J. Byers, executive editor of The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, who echoed other journalists' alarm at the president's remarks.
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Both opposition parties, Gerindra and the Democratic Party, denied being involved in planning the demonstration, but they have supported its goal of jailing Mr. Basuki for blasphemy and sought to link Mr. Joko to that controversy.
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It's a measure of how grim the last few years have been for the President that the jailing of his former campaign chairman could be interpreted in any way as good news for his White House.
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That's just a snapshot of the cases around the world in recent history, but the point is this -- many Americans believe jailing political opponents, or threatening to, is the hallmark of a dictatorship, not a vibrant democracy.
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VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - European Union leaders said talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday offered no answers to a long list of concerns including over Turkey's intervention in Syria and the jailing of journalists at home.
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Critics say the election was a backward step for democracy in Cambodia following the dissolution last year of the main opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) and the jailing of its leader, Kem Sokha, on treason charges.
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The turnout at the handover protest in 2018 was one of the lowest ever after Hong Kong's opposition lost steam following the disqualification of pro-democracy legislators and the jailing of some of the most prominent activists.
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That measure is intended to hold the Saudi crown prince "accountable" for contributing to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, a blockade of Qatar, the jailing of dissidents and Khashoggi's death but it imposes no penalties on Riyadh.
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Set up in 2006 to aid the country's weak prosecutors, the UN-backed body has aided investigations that led to the removal and jailing of a president, and the dismantling of death squads and drug-trafficking rings.
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Critics of Sisi say he has presided over the most oppressive political crackdown in Egypt's modern history, citing the jailing or alleged intimidation of opponents before March's presidential election, and the arrests of journalists and online activists.
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After Trump's Twitter tantrums yesterday — calling for the jailing of a political opponent and bragging his nuclear button is bigger than North Korea's — CNN used its powerful platforms and people to suggest the president is mentally unstable.
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Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States was preparing a "series of actions" to raise pressure on Maduro, whom Washington and its allies accuse of stifling democracy by jailing opposition leaders.
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A current draft of that legislation envisages jailing any individual or the representatives of any legal entity in Russia who refuses to supply services or do business with a Russian citizen citing U.S. or other foreign sanctions.
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The U.S. State Department report cited incidents such as the expulsion of Financial Times editor Victor Mallet, the banning of a pro-independence political party, the jailing of young democracy activists and barring people from local elections.
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Prosecutor Carlos Lima said the task force investigating graft at state-run oil company Petrobras sought the "preventive" jailing of Mantega, which is usually granted when there is risk of a subject fleeing or committing further wrongdoing.
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Instead, what we get, is prosecution as panacea: a myopic focus on jailing families as a deterrent, even though nothing could deter the next mother from trying to save her daughter from the clutches of a cartel.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - A strike called across Catalonia by pro-independence activists to protest the jailing of sacked regional politicians shut down roads early on Wednesday, causing huge tailbacks into Barcelona while some public transport ran minimum services.
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The suit against Jennings was filed the same day as one against Ferguson; both sought an end to some of the cities' jailing practices, as well as compensation for those who had been caught up in them.
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Toledo has not been convicted of any crimes but a judge ruled Thursday that evidence uncovered so far merited jailing him for up to 18 months while influence peddling and money laundering charges are prepared against him.
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"It will be a total disaster if the investigation ends in stripping [Selahattin] Demirtas [one of the HDP co-chairs] of legal immunity and jailing him, as happened to several Kurdish deputies in the 1990s," writes Akyol.
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In a brief filed in support of a class-action lawsuit challenging the bail system, the DOJ held that jailing people who are facing charges unless they can afford to post bail impermissibly discriminates against the poor.
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Repressive regimes made 2018 a near-record year for the jailing of reporters, and they helped create a climate for an increase in the number of reporters who were murdered, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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After leading a two-year crackdown against his political enemies in the wake of a failed coup in 2016, Mr. Erdogan has been accused of growing authoritarianism: jailing opponents, firing judges and academics and controlling the media.
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Critics say the election was a backward step for democracy in Cambodia following the dissolution last year of the main opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) and the jailing of its leader, Kem Sokha, on treason charges.
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Immigration lawyers in Miami-Dade County are challenging its practice of jailing people on behalf of federal immigration authorities, in a case that could test the Trump administration's attempts to pressure so-called sanctuary cities and counties.
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Under his direction, China's Communist Party has clamped down severely on civil society, tightening restrictions on the internet and jailing scores of lawyers focused on using the country's own laws to defend the rights of aggrieved people.
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Mounting criticism Suu Kyi has faced intense criticism for her role in the crisis and the jailing of the two Reuters journalists, with international bodies calling for the Nobel Peace laureate to be stripped of the honor.
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Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu said the club, which had condemned the jailing of separatist leaders, will make no effort to quell dissenting voices but added he was certain the game would go ahead without major incident.
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Indeed, the cost of jailing someone in New York City has ballooned to nearly $250,000 a year, roughly the cost of a four-year Ivy League degree, while stabbings and slashings have quadrupled in the last decade.
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What is the purpose of jailing one individual who knowingly provided false information — assuming this can be proved to the satisfaction of the court — after the news item has been shared millions of times over social media?
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LUSAKA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The United States has withdrawn its ambassador to Zambia following a row with authorities in the southern African nation after he criticised the jailing of a gay couple, embassy sources said on Monday.
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Conditions in Venezuela have deteriorated to a point where the opposition — gutted by the jailing and exiling of many of its leaders and discredited after several failed efforts to oust President Nicolás Maduro — is seeing an opportunity.
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As protesters demanded greater freedoms amid some talk of splitting Hong Kong from China, Beijing tightened its grip, jailing some young protest leaders, forcing others to flee and taking the wind out of the democracy movement's sails.
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Back in Garanhuns, local Workers&apos Party chairman Eraldo dos Santos, da Silva&aposs cousin, believes it&aposs time for the former president to pick a successor even if he believes the jailing of da Silva was unjust.
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However Americans feel about the country's domestic culture wars, most can agree in abhorring the imprisonment of Muslim Uighurs in China, the arrest and torture of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, the jailing of so-called blasphemers in Pakistan.
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Among the protesters opposed to the governor, one group held a placard reading "Jailing Ahok = fair government" President Joko Widodo, seen as an ally to Purnama, has blamed "political actors" for fuelling the protests, but declined to elaborate.
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"Majority Leader McConnell cited civil rights legislation yesterday, as well he should, because he was alive to witness the harassment, jailing and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government sworn to protect them," he added.
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Moroccan authorities have charged 11 people, jailing eight of them, over the death of Fikri who was crushed in a trash truck while trying to stop police from destroying 500 kilograms of swordfish they say he purchased illegally.
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In an interview with The New York Times in July, he declined to criticize Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for jailing thousands of political opponents and pointed out that the United States had its own share of problems.
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The tourist paradise has been in political upheaval since February, when a state of emergency was imposed by Yameen, who ran the Indian Ocean islands with an iron hand, critics say, jailing political opponents and Supreme Court justices.
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It appears to confirm the claims of the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) that the judge's motive earlier this year for jailing its leader and putative presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was more political than judicial.
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"Yet it would appear that after this high profile agreement to coordinate with a government that is known for suppressing expression online and jailing activists, the problem of account suspension and content takedown has only grown more acute."
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They include his conversation with Ivan Tkachev, a top FSB general who had been his handler and who is responsible for jailing some of the most powerful men in Russia, including regional governors, oligarchs, ministers and police generals.
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German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel defended the move given serious differences between the two allies over a range of issues, including the jailing of a German-Turkish journalist, but said Germany remained committed to mending ties with Turkey.
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Judge Cesar Sahuanay said there was no legal basis for jailing Fujimori and 19 others before trial in connection with alleged payments from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction group at the center of the region's biggest ever graft probe.
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Besides the controversial jailing of several prominent young activists for unlawful assembly over the massive 2014 "Occupy" pro-democracy protests, authorities also ejected six pro-democracy lawmakers from the legislature for failing to take proper oaths of office.
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The jailing of Lula is merely the most extraordinary twist in an election that was already like no other in Brazil, at least since 1989 when Fernando Collor, a previously obscure conservative populist, won against a crowded field.
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In the aftermath he faced a slump in sales of diesel cars, the jailing of staff in America and a bill of some $30bn (made up of fines and the cost of buying back vehicles from aggrieved consumers).
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition activists said on Thursday they planned to press ahead with an unauthorized rally in Moscow this weekend despite overnight police searches and a raft of detentions, including the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
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He has also overseen the largest crackdown on dissent in Egypt&aposs recent history, jailing thousands of Islamists as well as some secular pro-democracy activists, and rolled back many of the freedoms won following the 2011 uprising.
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The Constitutional Court ruled late on Thursday that authorities had violated Dundar's and Gul's personal rights as well as their rights to freedom of expression by jailing them, paving their way to prosecution without being held in prison.
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The northeastern region has been hit by seven consecutive nights of sometimes violent protests following the jailing last week of nine Catalan separatists found guilty of sedition over their role in leading a failed 2017 bid for independence.
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The Madrid High Court upped the stakes on Monday in Spain's worst political crisis in decades, moving to thwart Catalonia's independence push by jailing the heads of its two main separatist groups pending an investigation for alleged sedition.
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However, she is believed to have been unhappy for months with the continued jailing of some activists despite judges' orders to free them, sources within her office say, and could be an influential brake within government going forward.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against the jailing of three young democracy activists, with many questioning the independence of the Chinese-ruled city's judiciary.
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Putin has been accused by rights groups of muzzling the media, jailing his opponents and clamping down on civil society over the 19 years in which he has dominated Russia's political landscape and enjoyed consistently high popularity ratings.
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"The arrest and jailing of two journalists last fall was deeply troubling to millions of Americans and I look forward to speaking to you about the premium that we place on a free and independent press," he said.
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Now, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wages a widespread purge, jailing and suspending tens of thousands of state employees, the military, which has long served as a unifying force for the country, is deeply divided, diminished and discredited.
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This is the context of Melania Trump's plagiarism, of Ted Cruz's anti-endorsement, of the night of the convention that was supposed to be about jobs and the economy but was actually about Benghazi and jailing Hillary Clinton.
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Besides the controversial jailing of several prominent young activists for unlawful assembly over the 2014 Occupy pro-democracy protests, the authorities also ejected six pro-democracy lawmakers from the legislature for failing to take proper oaths of office.
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The jailing of Mr. Glas will also have implications for politics within Ecuador, where President Lenin Moreno, who took office this year, has sought to break from his predecessor, Rafael Correa, who governed the country for a decade.
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MADRID — A judge who sits on Spain's Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a handful of Catalan lawmakers awaiting trial on rebellion charges in contrast with the jailing last week of former members of the Catalan government.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's Socialist government has warned crisis-hit Venezuela that bilateral ties could be at risk over its jailing of Portuguese supermarket managers on charges of gouging food prices and demanded that the problem be resolved swiftly.
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Defending authorities' jailing of Ghosn, Mori said that in Japan, a suspect can only be arrested with a warrant from the court upon review by a judge unlike in some countries where detention is possible without a warrant.
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"So relations are pretty bad, which is why there won't be a bilateral," Cook said, adding: "It's hard for the president to meet with Erdogan when the Turks are shutting down opposition media, jailing journalists, and intimidating academics."
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Since taking office in May 2018, Torra has repeatedly clashed with Madrid, most recently calling for a new vote on self-determination for the region as protests over the jailing of nine independence leaders were staged in Barcelona.
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Judge Ivan Athié of the TRF-2 federal appeals court said in his ruling that the evidence provided by investigators did not justify the "preventive" jailing of Temer and seven other defendants, including former minister Wellington Moreira Franco.
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She traces her jailing to the day last September when her committee heard testimony from Edgar Matobato, a professed hit man who said he worked for the Davao Death Squad, which he said Mr. Duterte created and commanded.
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Moro, a former judge who made his name jailing scores of Brazil's business and political elite in the "Operation Car Wash" investigation during the past five years, said Bolsonaro adopted several vetoes suggested by the Ministry of Justice.
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Critics said it is not only the sidelining of an elected body, but also the jailing of scores of opponents, postponement of local elections last year and thwarting of a referendum on Maduro that evidence Venezuela's democratic erosion.
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Rights activist Khin Sandar, who has taken part in the online campaign against the arrests, said the jailing of activists was galling under a government that includes many all too familiar with being locked up by the army.
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MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain moved closer on Monday to imposing central rule over Catalonia to thwart its independence push as Madrid's High Court signaled a hardening line by jailing the leaders of two of the largest separatist organizations.
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"Majority Leader McConnell cited civil-rights legislation yesterday, as well he should, because he was alive to witness the harassment, jailing, and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government sworn to protect them," Coates said.
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This has seemed like an impossible choice for some activist groups, who plan to oppose some of the narrow Republican bills on family separation if the end result means jailing entire families in government detention centers — perhaps indefinitely.
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Suu Kyi has said that the jailing of the Reuters reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression and that they were convicted, not because they were journalists, but because they had broken the official secrets law.
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FitzPatrick had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which followed the jailing last year of two former Anglo bosses who were among the first senior bank executives to be jailed in relation to Ireland's banking crisis a decade ago.
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Bulgaria has seen steady economic growth on his watch and some improvements in infrastructure, mostly funded by the EU, but has made scant progress towards stamping out graft, jailing corrupt officials and businessmen and overhauling an inefficient, creaking judiciary.
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Putin has gone to great lengths to stifle the underground leader's budding movement; jailing him repeatedly, raiding his headquarters, censoring his websites, and shutting down street protests, but it's the imprisonment of Navany's younger brother that's proved most painful.
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Trump has in turn praised Arpaio for his extreme immigration stance and tactics, which included the jailing of illegal immigrants in tent cities, the reduction of meal costs to 20 cents per day, and chain gangs for women inmates.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - New clashes erupted between Catalan pro-independence demonstrators and riot police in the center of Barcelona late on Tuesday in tense protests over the jailing of nine separatists by the Supreme Court over a 2017 independence bid.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of thousands marched in China-ruled Hong Kong on Sunday in an "anti authoritarian rule" march that called for the resignation of the city's top legal official over the recent jailing of young democracy activists.
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Rights groups have criticized Saudi Arabia and its neighbors for jailing some who voiced dissent online, including Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for a "cyber crime" of insulting Islam.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Party members, especially those in leadership roles, need to ensure they keep their family members on tight leash to prevent corruption, the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party said on Tuesday after a high-profile jailing.
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In a front page editorial, the People's Daily said Ling's jailing showed once again that all are equal in front of the law and that no matter who you are if you break the law you will be punished.
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Furthermore, family detention facilities have also been revealed as beneficiaries of guaranteed minimums, with the public facility in Berks County, Pennsylvania and the notorious GEO-run Karnes detentioncenter in Texas enjoying lucrative quotas for jailing refugee women and children.
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Bipartisan action Rubio's comments follow the introduction of a bipartisan Senate resolution that condemned bin Salman for a series of actions, including the crisis in Yemen, the blockade in Qatar, the jailing of dissidents and the killing of Khashoggi.
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After she was arrested, she claimed that she was a victim of political persecution by her successor, President Benigno S. Aquino III, who campaigned on the promise of rooting out corruption and jailing political leaders who plundered government coffers.
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MALE (Reuters) - Maldives president Abdulla Yameen is a ruthless political operator who has cracked down on threats to his rule, say diplomats and former colleagues - including jailing his own half-brother in an on-off feud dating from childhood.
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Erdoğan has ruled Turkey under a state of emergency since then, leading a crackdown on independent media, jailing over 47,000 people on terrorism charges, and dismissing over 100,000 public officials over alleged coup links, according to Human Rights Watch.
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READ: Myanmar tries to "whitewash" its Rohingya crimes by jailing journalists One Rohingya leader said the impact of the ban will be huge, as it will disrupt communications between different camps scattered across the border district of Cox's Bazar.
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These values stand in stark contrast to the growing authoritarianism of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is jailing tens of thousands of Turkish citizens in addition to razing entire Kurdish communities as he consolidates his dictatorial grip.
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In the election, the BNP – in disarray following the jailing of its leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia for alleged corruption - has joined smaller parties to form the National Unity Front alliance, headed by secular leader Kamal Hossain.
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The jailing of her attacker was hailed as an improbable victory for women's rights in Afghanistan, but her husband was recently killed in revenge, forcing her to live on $28 scrounged from his pockets when his body was returned.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court said on Thursday that it would review the jailing of an actor over an opposition protest after state prosecutors formally requested that he be released on bail following a public outcry over his conviction.
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The authorities stepped in, using newly granted powers and stiff sentencing under the country's landmark Elimination of Violence Against Women Act, and arrested four confederates of the militia leader, jailing them for 12 years with no hope of parole.
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Western nations have courted Azerbaijan because of its role as an alternative to Russia in supplying oil and gas to Europe, but various European bodies and rights groups accuse Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents, which Baku denies.
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When it comes to tackling discontent at home, both Putin and Xi have used a broadly similar playbook – particularly when it comes to targeting and jailing unpopular but often hugely wealthy oligarchs and other senior officials and business people.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Jakarta's former governor, a Christian, will withdraw an appeal against his controversial jailing for insulting Islam in Muslim-majority Indonesia, to allow prosecutors to appeal the sentence and calm protests, his family and lawyers said on Tuesday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — For almost three decades, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ruled Sudan with a heavy fist, jailing opponents and former allies, overseeing the bloody suppression of the Darfur region and squashing protests that dared to challenge his regime.
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When Donald Trump talks of rigged votes and jailing his political opponents – when he says that he alone can solve America's problems in the manner of a strongman – it speaks to his fundamental lack of understanding about real democracy.
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Krasikov had no way of knowing that her novel would be published just as America is witnessing the ascension of a ruler who calls for jailing his opponents, proposes to weaken the First Amendment and uncritically quotes Russian propaganda.
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President Rodrigo Duterte said he will impose a requirement on U.S. citizens to obtain visas in the country if any Philippine official involved in the jailing of Senator Leila de Lima is denied entry to the United States. Sens.
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Vietnam's human rights record is in the spotlight, as it shows no sign of let-up in the jailing and intimidation of activists, bloggers and dissidents, despite an aggressive pursuit of closer economic and diplomatic ties with the West.
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Nonetheless, because beating a dead horse seems to work for him, Trump then followed up this morning by seeming to back WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a man he had called for the jailing of only a few years ago.
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Related: How to Stop the Dangerous 'Revolving Door' of Jailing the Mentally Ill "He was moved to a new unit without following the basic guidelines of his treatment," she said, adding that she didn't blame him for the attack.
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For their part, many could blame corporate interests for unfairly dictating their life outcomes but couldn't grasp how a political economy built around the disproportionate jailing of black, Hispanic, and native people might do the same for those populations.
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Unlike his predecessor in the George W. Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice, who chided U.S. partners for jailing dissidents, Pompeo made no mention of Saudi Arabia's brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi or its continued incarceration of peaceful advocates of reform.
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SEOUL, Feb 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's Lotte Group said on Tuesday that the jailing of its chairman was "unexpected", adding it was worried the ruling could affect mounting current issues such as a initial public offering of key unit Hotel Lotte .
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The BNP, which is in disarray following the jailing of its chief, former prime minister Khaleda Zia, on corruption charges, had also pressed for a caretaker government at the 2014 election and boycotted it after the demand was not met.
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"It is an extraordinary and significant step toward the critical and constitutionally mandated goal of ending the longstanding practice of jailing presumptively innocent persons prior to trial because they are too poor to post cash bail," Garcia said in a statement.
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Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who outpolls both, has also gotten far more media coverage, according to the unpublished UERJ research, driven largely by his jailing for a bribery conviction, which will likely bar him from the race.
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Manafort tried to clean up Yanukovych's image in the West, convincing policymakers that his jailing of Tymoshenko was not politically motivated, for example, and that Yanukovych was the best leader to forge Ukraine's relationship with Europe — exactly as Putin wanted.
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Robinson's jailing has tapped into a long-standing narrative among conservatives in the U.K. and Europe that authorities are quick to clamp down on anyone bringing attention to crimes associated with Islam, while being lax about the perpetrators of those crimes.
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The jailing of Wong, Chow and Law sparked international and domestic criticism including a weekend protest drawing more than 22,000 people, fuelling concern that Hong Kong's judiciary, long considered one of the most independent in Asia, had succumbed to political pressure.
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The victim&aposs jailing spurred legislators to pass a law guaranteeing that witnesses or sexual assault victims receive a court-appointed lawyer and a formal hearing before a judge can order them into custody to secure their testimony at trial.
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He has come under fire from the international community and rights advocates in his country over the past few months after he shut down major news outlets, cracked down on NGOs, and dissolved the main opposition party after jailing its leader.
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At an event on Tuesday in Concord, New Hampshire, he continued to defend the 1994 crime bill he helped craft as a senator that has been criticized by Harris and other candidates for resulting in the disproportionate jailing of African-Americans.
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Why it matters: Khashoggi is a Washington Post opinion columnist who had in recent months become critical of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, a noted ally of the Trump administration, who is known for jailing dissidents and political opponents.
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Capping off an electoral campaign marked by passionate anti-establishment sentiment, the jailing of a former president and rising political violence, Brazil took a collective leap of faith and elected right-wing nationalist strongman Jair Bolsonaro to a 4-year term.
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The BNP, which is in disarray following the jailing on corruption charges of its chief, former prime minister Khaleda Zia, had also pressed for a caretaker government at the 2014 election and pulled out after the demand was not met.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Randolph county, Alabama, for instance, for jailing Kandace Edwards, an army veteran who was seven months pregnant, because she could not afford a $123,500 bond after being arrested for forging a $75 cheque.
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If Mr Mueller were to succeed in jailing Mr Manafort, and in publicly shaming Mr Papadopoulos, he would have achieved very little if his probe does not expose what Russia really did during the American election of 2016, and why.
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Mr. Sharro's illustrations suggested that the West should avoid conducting airstrikes, invading Iraq, furnishing repressive regimes with tear gas and deadly weapons, overlooking the jailing of dissidents and cozying up to autocrats like President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Law enforcement and judicial officials in China must be absolutely loyal to the ruling Communist Party, state media said, in the latest warning about loyalty in the wake of the jailing of former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang.
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Dad: 'She had a bigger backbone than I did' Authorities later arrested James Alex Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, jailing him on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death.
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He is the most senior Nigerian politician to have been held to account for the corruption that has blighted Africa's most populous nation for decades, and his jailing was hailed as a high point in the international fight against graft.
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Gulen's supporters in the judiciary, police and civil service helped Erdogan to tame his enemies in Turkey's old secular elite, especially the armed forces, through mass trials, dubbed "Sledgehammer" and "Ergenekon", which led to the jailing of many top generals.
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CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - The economic success of the metropolitan area of Chongqing in central China was in the balance following the jailing four years ago of its charismatic Communist Party chief Bo Xilai, a rising star in the political elite.
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And while Obama deserves some blame in the abstract—for not jailing any bankers in the wake of the financial collapse and overseeing the decline of the Democratic Party at the local level—pinning blame on him directly is foolish.
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Instead, reports echo Friedman's cheerleading, pointing to genuine reforms (women can now drive in Saudi Arabia and Black Panther will be the first movie to screen in the kingdom in 35-years) and downplaying bin Salman's habit of jailing opponents.
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There are echoes in the Hedges case of the clash in priorities that has dogged the West's response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, and of the spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada over the jailing of female activists.
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Trump has vowed to revise libel laws to make it easier to sue media companies—"Believe me, if I become president, oh, do they have problems," Trump told his supporters—and he has suggested jailing journalists who print classified information.
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Shareholder activism is rare in South Korea but the chaebols are under mounting pressure to reform after a corruption scandal last year led to the jailing of Samsung Group's heir apparent and the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye.
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And even as crime rates declined nationally, the trend toward jailing women in rural counties continued: Incarceration rates for women in sparsely populated counties rose to 140 per 100,000 in 22005 from 280 per 226,22014 in 211, the study found.
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" For $4 million, Craig was willing to draft an "independent" report that justified the jailing of a former Ukrainian prime minister even though, as the indictment noted, Craig personally believed that the evidence of criminal intent was "virtually non-existent.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's highest court on Thursday rejected the final attempt by a British former banker to force a new trial over his jailing in 2016 for the cocaine-fueled murder of two Indonesian women he tortured and raped.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims led by a hardline group have twice descended on Jakarta to protest against Purnama and call for his jailing, leading to questions in the world's third largest democracy on the protection of the rights of minorities.
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The law, which made it a crime for parents to allow children to miss too many consecutive days of school, resulted in the arrest and jailing of some parents, which Harris hastened to add did not occur on her watch.
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Following the 2005 elections, when the opposition won a third of the seats in parliament, the EPRDF clamped down violently, jailing opposition and enacting laws effectively eliminating independent media and civil society work on human rights, governance and elections issues.
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Such threats range from overly broad libel laws that shield oligarchs from scrutiny, to intimidating the families and friends of reporters who dare to root out the truth, to jailing, torturing and even killing journalists just for doing their jobs.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW), the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Index on Censorship were among 17 signatories of a letter to Formula One raising concerns about the jailing of female activist and blogger Najah Yusuf.
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There are two main contenders among the dozens of parties in the election fray: PTI and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which aims to win a second term despite the jailing of its founder, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, for graft.
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A private probation company in Tennessee is violating racketeering laws by jailing impoverished people who fail to pay court fines for traffic violations and misdemeanor offenses, and by refusing to waive fees for the indigent, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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The victory of Solih, who is known as a reformer, dislodges Yameen, a hardliner who had cultivated ties with both Beijing and Saudi Arabia, and cracked down on threats to his rule, even jailing his own half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
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A federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Thursday that the government had violated the rights of a migrant from Ivory Coast who requested asylum at the Texas border in 2016 by jailing him for nearly three years without opportunity for bail.
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Mr. Maduro's jailing of his opponents has been widely criticized by foreign governments and democracy advocates worldwide, and the Trump administration used it as a justification for imposing sanctions this year against Mr. Maduro and dozens of officials in his government.
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According to his charges, he cut a deal in 2012 to earn $4 million from a Ukrainian client for the law firm by producing a supposedly independent report on the jailing of a political rival of the then-Ukraine president.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeated the phrase "lock her up" during a speech to conservative high school students on Tuesday, chuckling as the crowd began a chant that Trump supporters used during the 2016 campaign to call for jailing Hillary Clinton.
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He has also cracked down on the independent news media, jailing about 140 journalists in the past year, with at least 81 still in prison last month, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more than in any other country.
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Like his prospective new boss, Mr. Tillerson is viewed here as more likely to cut deals than crack down on human rights violations, a sore spot for Bahrain, where the Obama administration has criticized the government for jailing political dissidents.
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Fairly or not, United States support is seen in the region as approval of horrific human rights abuses by the Saudi government, including the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the illegal jailing of women human rights activists.
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Relations between the two NATO allies have been strained over differences in Syria policy, Turkey's plan to buy a Russian defense system, and the U.S. jailing of an executive at a Turkish state bank in an Iran sanctions-busting case.
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The HDP opposes the constitutional reform but its ability to campaign has been devastated by a crackdown which has led to the jailing of its leaders, a dozen of its MPs and thousands of its members on charges of PKK links.
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Around the Mediterranean, the once bright promise of the Arab Spring has been betrayed by autocratic leaders, such as Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt (also just re-elected), who use security to justify the jailing of reporters and political opponents.
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BARCELONA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Demonstrators blocked a train station and several motorways in Spain's Catalonia region on Tuesday, a second day of protests over Monday's jailing of nine separatists by the supreme court over their role in a failed secession bid.
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The state government in Rio is broke, struggling to pay police salaries and reeling from the jailing of a former governor, Sérgio Cabral, accused of running a multimillion-dollar graft network that took bribes from Olympic and other public works projects.
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His jailing in Britain, where he had laundered millions of pounds and sent his children to an expensive private school, was hailed as a high point in the international fight against graft and an important signal to other corrupt politicians.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has deep concerns about the Venezuelan government's jailing of two opposition leaders and urges the unconditional release of prisoners and re-establishment of democracy in the South American country, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.
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Turkey should commit to sound economic policies to promote stability and reduce imbalances at a time of market volatility, an IMF spokesperson said on Wednesday as a row between Washington and Ankara over the jailing of an American pastor dragged on.
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Comey's departure led to Mueller's appointment a few days later and two years of agony for the White House, which led to the prosecution and jailing of a number of Trump associates while subjecting the nation to a political nightmare.
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" In addition, the executive summary on Saudi Arabia does not mention the jailing and reported torture of women activists who had lobbied for the right of all women to drive, though it notes that "new women's rights initiatives were implemented.
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The investigation found that, for decades, the city Police Department and the parish Sheriff's Office maintained an unwritten policy of jailing people without probable cause — for days and even weeks at a time — to pressure them to cooperate with law enforcement.
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Despite calls from some liberal activists for the jailing of witnesses who have declined to cooperate with the impeachment probe, House Democrats have shown no interest in trying to assert their historical authority to have individuals arrested for contempt of Congress.
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It was further tarnished in 2015, when Sandra Bland, a Prairie View alumna, who was heading back to the school to take a job, was the subject of a highly controversial police stop and subsequent jailing that ended with her suicide.
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Just last year, ArchCity Defenders reached a $4.75 million settlement in a debtors' prison class action lawsuit against the city of Jennings, which borders Ferguson, for illegally jailing people who were unable to pay traffic tickets or minor ordinance violations.
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"President Donald Trump's nationalistic rhetoric, fixation on Islamic extremism, and insistence on labeling critical media 'fake news' serves to reinforce the framework of accusations and legal charges that allow such leaders to preside over the jailing of journalists," the group said.
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Still, there's little sympathy in the media for the idea that jailing Mr. Assange is a violation of First Amendment press freedom — while there's broad agreement that prosecuting the news organizations that published the material he provided would be unthinkable.
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Since the coup, Erdoğan has ruled Turkey under a state of emergency, leading a crackdown on independent media, jailing over 47,000 people on terrorism charges, and dismissing over 0003,000 public officials over alleged coup links, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Since the coup, Erdoğan has ruled Turkey under a state of emergency, leading a crackdown on independent media, jailing over 47,000 people on terrorism charges, and dismissing over 100,000 public officials over alleged coup links, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Relations have also been strained by U.S. support of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, Turkey's plans to purchase a Russian missile defense system and the U.S. jailing of an executive of a Turkish state bank in an Iran sanctions case.
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We call on Microsoft to end its relationship with ICE and any federal agencies engaged in enforcing the cruel policies of this administration, which is destroying families and jailing asylum seekers, undocumented long-term residents, and even naturalized citizens under threat of deportation.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Myanmar's verdict on Monday jailing two Reuters reporters for seven years on charges of breaching an official secrets act is a major step backward in the southeast Asian nation's transition to democracy, the agency's Editor in Chief Stephen J Adler said.
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The dispute comes after a turbulent time for Crown, which abruptly quit plans for expansion in Las Vegas and in Macau after a Chinese crackdown on gambling resulted in the jailing of more than a dozen of its staff two years ago.
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"What the administration is doing is operating entirely outside of the constraints imposed on them by Congress by jailing more and more people every week to now hit a breathtaking record," said Heidi Altman, director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center.
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In his final column, Khashoggi mourned the lack of international outcry against crackdowns on independent journalists and media in the Middle East, pointing to the jailing of Saudi writer Saleh al-Shehi and the seizure of the Egyptian paper al-Masry al-Youm.
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He is also proving himself to be a ruthless autocrat responsible for the jailing of his critics, massive civilian casualties in Yemen and — if reports are accurate — the assassination of a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist outside of Saudi Arabia's borders.
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Protests had rumbled on since June when Lin was first detained, but villagers told Reuters last month that the early hope of the Wukan Spring had now evaporated amid a new climate of fear and the jailing or exile of several key figures.
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Prime Minister Hun Sen is now using the platform to promote his message while jailing his critics, and his staff is doing its best to exploit Facebook's own rules to shut down criticism — all through a direct relationship with the company's staff.
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While this vigilantism in the heat of war may well subside, the trials, jailing, sentencing, and execution of at least 10,000 IS suspects will go on for years, sustaining new grievances for a much greater number of Iraqi families, tribes, and communities.
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Critics have seized on one aspect of Sheikh Salman's background that remains unclear: They want FIFA to investigate whether he had any connection to the jailing and torture of Bahraini athletes who peacefully protested his family's rule in 2011 during the Arab Spring.
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A recent report from BuzzFeed in Cambodia illustrated Facebook's problematic role in politics, with the country's authoritarian prime minister Hun Sen (last year Sen banned the main opposition party) using the site to push pro-government messages while identifying, and often jailing, critics.
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Indeed, a July open letter signed by a number of world leaders and members of the US Congress alleges that "the main objective" for Lula's jailing was "to prevent him from running" in this election, due to elite opposition to his leftist agenda.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish Interior Ministry said on Friday it had given the go ahead for civil guard police reinforcements to be sent to the outskirts of Barcelona following five days of sometimes violent protests over the jailing of pro-separatist leaders.
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press responded to a report from The New York Times published on Tuesday which suggested Trump made comments that former FBI director James Comey should consider jailing members of the press who published confidential material.
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The dispute comes after a turbulent time for Crown, which abruptly quit plans for expansion in Las Vegas and in Macau after a Chinese crackdown on gambling resulted in the jailing of more than a dozen of its staff two years ago.
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Yet the recent jailing of two gay men for three months - under a public indecency law that carries a harsher prison sentence for "an indecent or unnatural act with a person of the same sex" - has sent shivers through the LGBTI community.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The jailing of three Hong Kong democracy activists this year is a serious threat to the city's rule of law, a group of senior international lawyers said on Monday, adding the independence of the judiciary risks becoming a "charade".
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Mr. Polanski's new film, known in English as "An Officer and a Spy," is titled "J'Accuse" in French, after the famous open letter in which the writer Émile Zola accused the French establishment of anti-Semitism and deception over the jailing of Dreyfus.
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His rise comes after the controversial 2016 impeachment of the leftist President Dilma Rousseff, which many view as a soft coup, and the April jailing of Rousseff's mentor, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who wants to run for office again.
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In the biggest crackdown on the financial sector since the administration of late leftist leader Hugo Chavez, the government of his successor, President Nicolas Maduro, in early May said it was taking over Banesco for 90 days and jailing its top executives.
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Would you be willing to undergo a lie detector test about your potential involvement, as alleged by constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz, in protecting Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger and the jailing of four people whose convictions were later overturned amid prosecutorial abuse?
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By continuing the administration's new "zero-tolerance" policy at the same time and insisting on prosecuting anyone at the border as a criminal, Trump is basically returning to the Obama-era policy of jailing parents and kids together for long periods of time.
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Then there is the fact that the case to which Trump appears to be referring is the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller for the stories she wrote off of the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
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It's not inconceivable to think that US prisons couldn't someday look like this, given the actions and rhetoric of GOP leaders and the fact that Trump reportedly asked then-FBI Director James Comey in February about jailing journalists who leaked classified information.
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"President Donald Trump's nationalistic rhetoric, fixation on Islamic extremism, and insistence on labeling critical media 'fake news' serves to reinforce the framework of accusations and legal charges that allow [some foreign] leaders to preside over the jailing of journalists," the report states.
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The report found the number of journalists charged on "false news" charges rose to a record of 28 globally -- compared with nine just two years ago -- with Egypt jailing the most on such charges (19), followed by Cameroon (four) and Rwanda (three).
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And right now, the world just saw our president turn a blind eye to a brutal regime responsible for the massacre of innocents, the unlawful jailing of American and Egyptian citizens, and the curtailment of the most basic and precious human rights.
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Temer has approval ratings in single digits and is immersed in the Lava Jato (Car Wash) corruption scandal -- the same scandal that, only a few days ago, led to the jailing of the country's popular ex-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Vice President Pence on Thursday insisted the Trump administration has defended the freedom of the press globally, and dismissed comparisons between the White House's decision to revoke CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press pass and Pence's criticism of Myanmar's leader for jailing two journalists.
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CAMLIDERE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition leader accused President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday of meddling in the judiciary and called him a "dictator", as he extended his cross-country protest march against the jailing of a parliamentary ally into a sixth day.
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The purge, which has also led to the closure of some 130 media outlets and jailing of 150 journalists, has alarmed Turkey's Western allies and rights groups, who say President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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While tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the initial jailing of Wong and other protest leaders -- including Nathan Law, who was the city's youngest lawmaker until he was disqualified from office in July -- demonstrations since have been somewhat lackluster.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkey should commit to sound economic policies to promote stability and reduce imbalances at a time of market volatility, an IMF spokesperson said on Wednesday as a row between Washington and Ankara over the jailing of an American pastor dragged on.
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As Air Force One carried Mr. Trump to Helsinki for the meetings with Mr. Putin, who has cracked down on the news media and been accused of jailing reporters and having them killed, Mr. Trump lashed out at the American news media.
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Beyond that, he started loosening a tightly controlled state-run economy, pledged multiparty elections in a country long known for jailing dissidents and began wooing the government's most strident critics: members of the Ethiopian diaspora, who have long organized insurgencies from afar.
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Nominally, the arrests are part of an anti-corruption drive spearheaded by the prince, widely known as MBS, but many experts say what's really happening is the crown prince and heir to the throne jailing potential rivals to cement his own power.
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In her email to her circle of activists she said she wouldn't press charges because jailing someone was no solution for sexual violence; instead, she said, she was warning women about the conduct of male human rights lawyers they thought they could trust.
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Maduro's government has been criticized by Washington, the European Union and Latin American neighbors for overriding Venezuela's opposition-led Congress, jailing opponents, using excessive force against protesters and failing to allow the entry of foreign humanitarian aid to ease the economic crisis.
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Still, there were things the judge felt he could say: Both entities, he said, had consented to put a temporary hold on the policy of jailing indigent defendants, and incarceration in many cases would be replaced with payment plans or community-service opportunities.
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Before Jailing a Young Woman, a Judge Puts Her Mother's Racist Views on the Stand Judge Henry T. Wingate was accused of "reverse racism" over the way he handled a hate-crime trial of white teenagers involved in murdering a black man.
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His populist economic policies have been wedded to a protracted campaign to consolidate the power of the executive branch, weaken the military (including jailing officers), empower Islamists, enervate individual liberties and the judiciary, and ultimately replace Turkey's holdover constitution with his own.
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WASHINGTON — Five years ago, Paul Manafort arranged for a prominent New York-based law firm to draft a report that was used by allies of his client, Viktor Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, to justify the jailing of a political rival.
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He has also said he would abolish money bail — which often leads to the jailing of poor defendants while wealthier ones go free — and would decline to seek charges in any case he deemed to be based on an illegal stop and search.
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MOSCOW — After trying to silence Aleksei A. Navalny by jailing him, accusing him of money laundering and searching the homes and offices of his supporters nationwide, the Russian authorities on Wednesday took yet one more swipe at the country's best known opposition leader.
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"We agreed to a deal that implicitly gave Turkey leverage over us," said the official, who was involved in the talks, noting the EU had become powerless to stop mass jailing of dissidents in Turkey since a failed coup attempt last year.
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His regime, which imposed an "iron curtain" across Europe to prevent millions of conquered peoples from escaping his despotic rule, was marked by ethnic cleansing, total press censorship, widespread religious persecution, and the jailing of political dissidents in the harsh Soviet Gulag.
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"I have been a proud citizen of the United States for 25 years, yet the long arm of the Chinese Communist regime has extended its reach across the borders to ravage my heart by jailing the only close family I have," she said.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's home affairs minister said on Tuesday that a U.S. ambassador who criticized the jailing of a gay couple for 15 years had "crossed the line," adding that the United States had responded to an official complaint by recalling him.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's home affairs minister said on Tuesday that a U.S. ambassador who criticized the jailing of a gay couple for 15 years had "crossed the line," adding that the United States had responded to an official complaint by recalling him.
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Lawyers for Joy Morales recently filed a lawsuit against Lea County and the city of Hobbs for refusing to believe Morales was a victim of identity theft and for erroneously jailing her over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in 2015, the Hobbs News-Sun reports .
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"The profiling and unlawful intelligence gathering in diaspora put not only Gulen people but all other critics, opponents and dissidents at risk of imprisonment if they are to return to Turkey, confiscation of their assets, jailing of their relatives with guilt by association," Bozkurt alleged.
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"One year ago, it was almost unimaginable that both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would be talking about jailing Wall Street bankers who break the law, breaking up big banks, extending Social Security benefits," said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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Al Jazeera wrote that the elections have been "marred by allegations of mass arrests and jailing of activists and critics, forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings" under the Bangladesh Awami League government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which has held power for a decade.
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Video Skadden attorneys drafted a report that was used to justify what many critics charged was the politician prosecution and jailing of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko -- one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution, and a fierce political rival of Russia-aligned President Viktor Yanukovych.
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Thousands took to the streets of Guinea on Thursday in the largest of a series of protests over a suspected effort by President Alpha Conde to seek a third term that have led to the jailing of a dozen opposition campaigners and politicians.
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HANOI/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and that they can appeal against their seven-year sentences, prompting a sharp rebuke from the United States.
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President Xi Jinping has presided over a far-reaching anti-corruption drive since coming to power in 2012, punishing more than a million party members, jailing top military figures and retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the most senior official toppled for corruption since 1949.
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President Xi Jinping has presided over a far-reaching anti-corruption drive since coming to power in late 2012, punishing more than a million party members, jailing top military figures and retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the most senior official toppled for corruption since 1949.
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The courts are a key arena for securing rights, Maleche said, referring to a 2016 victory where KELIN forced the government to stop jailing tuberculosis patients who did not take their medication - part of an attempt to control the spread of the infectious disease.
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Mexico and Peru have led the push with the United States for a resolution that defends representative democracy in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro is accused of leading the OPEC member toward dictatorship by delaying elections, jailing opposition activists and pressing to overhaul the constitution.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that jailing people just because they can't pay a fine or fee, without considering some other alternative, "effectively denies equal protection to one class of people within the criminal justice system," the Justice Department's 34-page legal filing said.
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Officials in the administration might well ask themselves: What is the greater evil — jailing children for prolonged periods of time at huge cost to the U.S. taxpayer or allowing caregivers to remain in the U.S. for a little longer to provide the care children need?
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What Obama apparently never considered was that the Orwellian surveillance tools he created, and the precedents he set of killing and jailing Americans, could one day fall into the hands of a mountebank, demagogic president unrestrained by norms and perhaps even untethered from reality.
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Mr. Flanagan said that the Border Force Act, which allows for the jailing for two years of any doctor or social worker who speaks out about children who are beaten or sexually abused, or about rape or cruelty to adults, threatened freedom of speech.
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Donald Trump has a history of praising Putin's leadership style of assassinating political rivals, journalists, and jailing bands named after a certain delightful part of the female anatomy for being critical of his tyranny, comparing his BFF to the imagined "weakness" of American's sitting President.
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"Let's not lock 'em up, let's elect Dan," Giuliani said after attendees at the Hilton Garden Inn broke into chants calling for jailing FBI officials criticized in the recent Justice Department inspector general report on the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe.
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For the past year Mr. Álvarez had been Venezuela's ambassador to the Organization of American States, where he helped stymie a hemispheric push to isolate Mr. Maduro for jailing opponents and quashing an opposition campaign to cut short his term through a recall referendum.
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Early in November, though, the Turkish government cracked down on the H.D.P. — the third-largest political party in the country's most recent national elections, where it won six million votes — jailing 10 of its members of Parliament, including its male and female co-leaders.
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Eight years before this week's abrupt jailing of Shkreli for offering Facebook followers a $20093,000 bounty for a sample of Clinton's hair, then-Secretary of State Clinton requested that American diplomats collect "biometric information" — such as DNA — from their foreign counterparts, classified documents show.
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Already, there has been union repression, with the jailing of labor leaders, which, Mr. Nova said, "has had a chilling effect on the industry," and wage negotiations later this year are expected to be fraught and will no doubt trigger worker protests and unrest.
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The justices left in place a 2018 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that fining or jailing homeless people for staying outside or in unauthorized places if a bed at an emergency shelter is not available is unconstitutional.
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"This good news, which comes as a relief after two years behind bars, should also be a reminder of Vietnam's worsening record of jailing anyone who criticizes the regime," Amnesty International's Regional Director for East and South East Asia Nicholas Bequelin said in the post.
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Relations between the two NATO allies have been under strain over U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, Turkey's plans to buy a Russian missile defense system, and the U.S. jailing of an executive at a Turkish state bank in an Iran sanctions case.
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By Megan O'Grady Before Jailing a Young Woman, a Judge Puts Her Mother's Racist Views on the Stand: Judge Henry T. Wingate was accused of "reverse racism" over the way he handled a hate-crime trial of white teenagers involved in murdering a black man.
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Relations between the two NATO allies have been strained by U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, Turkey's plans to buy a Russian missile defense system, and the U.S. jailing of an executive at a Turkish state bank in an Iran sanctions-busting case.
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