Sentence examples for found themselves behind bars from inspiring English sources

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From Egypt to Malaysia to Saudi Arabia to Singapore, bloggers have in recent months found themselves behind bars for posting materials that those in power dislike.

Whereas 216 people were jailed under the law in 2004, that figure had dropped to 42 by 2008, and since then only 22 have found themselves behind bars, according to figures from the state prosecution office.

That's when Archibald and Robertson found themselves behind bars with one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.

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They make docile inmates, their captors say, still stunned to find themselves behind bars.

Through that, he hopes to help others who, like himself, find themselves behind bars because of criminal impulses.

The statute of limitations for their crimes is five years, and she vows that those who slip up could quickly find themselves behind bars.

Are they to be indulged only until they successfully challenge the state, at which point they too will find themselves behind bars with the zealots of al-Qaida?

The eponymous "secret barrister" uses the accounts of real people and cases to reveal the legal system as being so broken that the innocent can find themselves behind bars while "every single day the provably guilty walk free".

We're told that the reason so many black and brown men find themselves behind bars and ushered into a permanent, second-class status is because they happen to be the bad guys.

If it were expanded to include everybody in the country the only "liberty" at risk would be the liberty of those responsible for countless unsolved rapes and murders, who could find themselves behind bars.

But Ms. Venetis and other immigration lawyers, who for years have complained about the detention of asylum seekers and the conditions in which they are sometimes held, said the decision offered hope to hundreds of refugees who each year seek asylum in the United States only to find themselves behind bars while judges determine their fate.

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