Sentence examples for form of prosecution from inspiring English sources

But the UN added that if the path to the ICC was blocked, then the most likely form of prosecution was of foreign fighters through their domestic courts.

After an ill-advised military order at the start, the president is painfully working out a form of prosecution of accused criminal-warriors that balances the protection of human lives with a concern for principles of human rights.

Of the thousands of women who report sexual violations to the police, 87percentt won't see their rapist convicted and almost 70percentt won't see any form of prosecution.

Double jeopardy, in law, protection against the use by the state of certain multiple forms of prosecution.

An intelligence officer is now immune to certain forms of prosecution and is able, with a single warrant, to access and modify any computers or devices associated with a suspect.

Some of the journalists, outraged by that fact alone, believe - rightly or wrongly - that the evidence was given in order for the company to avoid some form of corporate prosecution.

Police and prosecutors asked the inquiry not to publicise documents that had not been widely reported, or to delve into areas that might form part of prosecutions.

In effect, the Blackwater personnel were given a form of immunity from prosecution by the people they were working for and helping to protect.

Fuming after Blackwater agents contracted by the State Department mowed down 17 Iraqis in Baghdad on Sept. 16, Iraqis were incensed when they found out that State Department agents investigating the incident offered the guards a form of immunity from prosecution under American law.

"Despite rhetoric from Kenyan political leaders, there has been a lack of action in the form of high level prosecutions or interdiction," the US State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs said in a report released earlier this year.

Even in China a purge of potential opponents of Xi Jinping, the president and party leader, takes the form of a series of prosecutions for corruption.