Sentence examples for being imprisoned on from inspiring English sources

During last year's Cannes festival, Panahi was on hunger strike in prison in Tehran to protest against being imprisoned on unspecified charges.

He's only too familiar with "the long, creative arm of Southern law enforcement": in his youth he was a Black Power activist who narrowly avoided being imprisoned on a trumped-up charge of conspiracy to murder.

But she has widespread support among Thailand's poor majority in the countryside because of the populist policy carried out by her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who lives in self-imposed exile to avoid being imprisoned on a corruption conviction.

Once dubbed the "Switzerland of Central America", the country's self-image was badly shaken in 2004 when allegations of high-level corruption led to two former presidents being imprisoned on graft charges.

He was granted house arrest in 2015 after being imprisoned on charges of leading a coup against Maduro.

Imagine being imprisoned on a barren sliver of land, barely 25 miles long and between three and seven miles wide.

The dissident, Emadeddin Baghi, was imprisoned on a previously suspended one-year term on charges of acting against state security.

But for practical purposes, "most of the time" is actually reduced to wherever one happens to be imprisoned on Census day.

He was imprisoned on the US mainland.

Lumumba was imprisoned on a charge of inciting to riot.

Dozens of his guards were imprisoned on terrorism charges.