Sentence examples for courts imprisoned from inspiring English sources

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The Chinese courts imprisoned four Rio Tinto executives for receiving bribes while taking no action against the Chinese officials who offered the bribes.

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Separately, an Egyptian military court imprisoned 16 Islamists, most of them academics or professionals.See article: Political imprisonment in the Arab worldRwanda and Congo agreed on a peace pact.

HONG KONG — A Shanghai court imprisoned a tycoon who used a mountain of debt to buy the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

A court imprisoned him for 17 years for illegal possession of one tonne of explosives, said to be meant for attacks by JI on western targets in Singapore.

Ms Nash, who had been sitting in the public gallery, said after sentencing: "I have waited a year and three weeks for this day". Jenkin, who refused to attend court, imprisoned the mother-of-two at her house in Hayle for 12 hours after the assault, the court heard.

The Kremlin acted to stop the protests; new laws prescribe draconian punishments for acts of dissent, and the courts have imprisoned a small number of activists.

Obama said Guantanamo prisoners who cannot be transferred abroad could be tried in US criminal courts or imprisoned in US super-max facilities.

From 10 years of age children in Australia can be charged by police, tried in our courts and imprisoned in detention facilitates, in some cases for life.

Yet a court recently imprisoned a journalist, Ali Lamrabet, for "insulting" Mohammed in satirical articles.

He was court-martialed, imprisoned and demoted, despite his six service stars, after being caught smoking a joint while off duty in Saigon.

In Turkey, a court recently imprisoned dozens of senior military officers on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a punitive reminder to a military once accustomed to reasserting its authority through coups.

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