Sentence examples for activists punished from inspiring English sources

And could not help but see them as victims of the political manipulation of justice - independent activists punished for their work.

The type of "crimes" the female political activists were punished for included storing and distributing political leaflets, banners and T-shirts and attending meetings and demonstrations.

A recent petition to President Morsi by women's rights organizations denounced "[t]he trend of targeting female activists, to punish them for participating in the public sphere and to exclude them from political life".

Freedom of expression is under threat in Turkey, where journalists, academics and political activists have been punished for sharing views that oppose the government.

But observers say they believe the activist was being punished less for what he wrote than for his role in trying to reform the strict defamation laws, which critics are often used for political reasons.

After extensive collaboration between conservative American evangelicals and extreme-right Ugandan pastors and politicians, the country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill was born; if enacted, all health and sexuality programs geared towards gays would end; the government could punish activists "promoting" homosexuality; and homosexuals could be imprisoned with life sentences.

The Beijing authorities also increased the use of forced disappearances, house arrest, and detention in illicit "black jails" to punish activists, petitioners and their families, the US report says.

Around the country, farming states are passing "ag-gag" laws that punish activists who record and share horrific scenes from inside confined feeding operations and slaughterhouses.

Props to my boy, Reid Reasor, whose DGAF attitude about public service and belief that all of the recent American mass shooting suspects have been "left-wing activists bent on punishing people for socially normal US Constitutional freedoms," make him an excellent candidate for a variety of positions in the burgeoning AM radio and "village idiot" industries.

Props to my boy, Reid Reasor, whose DGAF attitudes about public service, and belief that all of the recent American mass-shooting suspects have been "left-wing activists bent on punishing people for socially normal US Constitutional freedoms," make him an excellent candidate for a variety of positions in the burgeoning AM radio and "village-idiot" industries.

The Republican opposition was led by conservative, anti-abortion lawmakers who said a provision of the bill would have unfairly punished anti-abortion activists by restricting their ability to use the bankruptcy courts to write off court fines.