The legislation will penalise whistle-blowers, journalists and activists who possess, disclose or even attempt to uncover protected information, and who refuse to reveal the sources of any classified material with jail terms of up to 25 years.
Another, slightly more obscure event the following year also made a lasting impression on me: John Sinclair, the poet and political activist, was convicted of possessing two marijuana cigarettes, and sentenced to ten years in federal prison a sentence that, even then, was unusually severe.
Another, slightly more obscure event the following year also made a lasting impression on me: John Sinclair, the poet and political activist, was convicted of possessing two marijuana cigarettes, and sentenced to ten years in federal prison — a sentence that, even then, was unusually severe.
Coincidentally, Oxford's press conference came just days after a U.K. court found animal-rights activist Mel Broughton not guilty of possessing an explosive substance with intent to damage the facility.
So to celebrate 4/20 on Monday afternoon — marijuana's unofficial national holiday — D.C. marijuana activists decided to possess and smoke marijuana on the National Mall, a doubly illegal offense.
Image caption Oyub Titiev says his case was "fabricated" A court in Russia's Chechnya republic has sentenced a prominent rights activist to four years in jail for possessing illegal drugs.
The three activists from the town of Vasilkovo were found guilty of possessing explosives and planning to blow up a monument to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in the nearby town of Borispol.
A human rights activist who was an advocate for parents whose children were killed in collapsed schools, Huang Qi, was formally arrested on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his lawyer said.
Do the parties have local offices, and do they possess dedicated local activists?
If Labour party activists had the power they possessed in 1969 they would have (rightly) disposed of the "education reforms" as they (wrongly) destroyed the trade union reforms which were called In Place of Strife.
Activists have an agenda.
