Increasingly, South African dissidents from all race groups were harassed, banned, or detained in prison without necessarily being charged under renewable 90-day detention sentences.
The number of these preventive detention sentences is small, so these inmates represent a select group within the Norwegian prison population.
They seem to identify low risk individuals with high levels of accuracy, but their use as sole determinants of detention, sentencing, and release is not supported by the current evidence.
Greens The Greens policy is to wind back many of the government's law and order reforms, including repealing mandatory sentences for criminal offences and reinstating suspended sentences and home detention as sentencing options.
As he had spent time in pre-trial detention, his sentence was completed in November 2008 and he was returned to his home country of Yemen.
The other three men, who were also Iranian, had spent an average of 708 days in detention at sentencing.
Two of Voina's leaders are in pretrial detention, facing sentences of up to seven years; a third fears losing custody of her son.
As he left court in 1985, sentenced to the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for his murders, torture and detentions (a sentence he did not serve, since Carlos Menem, a Peronist president, pardoned him in 1990), he snapped that he was "responsible, but not guilty".
