"Ilham's case is an example of someone being convicted for speaking freely," Tohti's lawyer, Li Fangping, said by phone, adding that the defence would appeal against the verdict.
In 1948, the New York affiliate of the ACLU received mixed results from the Supreme Court, winning the appeal of Carl Jacob Kunz, who was convicted for speaking without a police permit, but losing the appeal of Irving Feiner who was arrested to prevent a breach of the peace, based on his oration denouncing president Truman and the American Legion.
Mr Salah has not been convicted of antisemitism, and spoke recently on a platform in Tel Aviv University.
But granting clemency for a defendant convicted of contempt of court speaks to the same disdain toward the judicial system that Mr. Trump has displayed in his attacks on "so-called" judges.
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the man convicted of masterminding that assault, spoke chilling words after his arrest when an F.B.I. agent who accompanied him on a helicopter flight over Manhattan noted the towers were still standing.
Any individual below the status of President Clinton would have been immediately detained, tried and convicted of treason in China for speaking as he did against the human rights differences between China and the United States.
A former IT engineer in Syria, he said he was wrongly convicted of "posting YouTube videos and speaking to Al Jazeera about what was happening in the country," and jailed by Bashar al-Assad regime.
Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted of lying to federal agents, spoke at a "Trust Forum" on Tuesday, telling another familiar face, Chris Cuomo of ABC News, "I don't see myself as a product, I see myself as a guy who's been accused of something he didn't do".
David Cameron said companies had a "social responsibility" to act on terrorist material posted online after the report detailed how Michael Adebowale, one of two men convicted of Mr Rigby's murder, spoke on Facebook about wanting to murder a soldier.
Now he has been convicted of breaching a gag order by speaking to foreign journalists and attempting to leave Jerusalem.
