Sentence examples for been imprisoned for using from inspiring English sources

Under the existing law, only two people have been imprisoned for using force against burglars within recent memory.

64-year-old ship captain, Peter Russell, had been imprisoned for using the master key card of his Princess Cruise liner to let himself into the cabin of a 14-year-old girl, where he sexually assaulted her as she slept.

Last year, 11 writers and bloggers in Iran were imprisoned for using social media, and recent reports from human rights groups suggest that 2014 will be much worse.

Several Facebook users have already been imprisoned for their use of the service during the unrest.

"Many more Chinese citizens have been imprisoned for their ideas.

Yet not a single politician has been imprisoned for graft.

But he has already been imprisoned for eight years.

Most of them have been imprisoned for questioning".

In the northwest, two young men were imprisoned for four years for using the Internet to urge riots that never happened — a severity of punishment normally reserved for knife crimes, sexual assault and other offenses.

Three years ago we came within a single parliamentary vote of being saddled with a law (the Religious Hatred Act) that meant you or I could be imprisoned for seven years for using insulting language, even if the insult was unintentional and referred to an established truth.

A revolving door has allowed some prisoners to be released, while others are imprisoned for terrible misdeeds like using the Internet to critique China's one-party state, organizing independent labor unions or celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday.