Myat Min received twenty-one years — seven for illegal printing, seven for distributing the pamphlets, and seven for anti-government activities.
Behind a pair of iron doors emblazoned with a large hammer and sickle, visitors can take a step back in time in a museum preserving the illegal printing press used by the young Josef Stalin at the turn of the 20th century.
Because the Crown held the copyright, it was illegal to print an English Bible in North America.
Instead, he held an illegal election, printed his own ballot papers, and in June declared himself the winner.
But not every text recovered from Dunhuang was printed to accumulate merit: some were almanacs, which were among the most popular texts in medieval China, and closely regulated by the imperial government, which made it illegal to print them privately.
Incredibly, the law that makes it illegal to print your own tenners at home has never been updated to apply to the electronic money that is now created by banks.
Oxford's Ashmolean Museum is currently showing an exhibition of the work of the satirical cartoonist James Gillray; by 1857, a fair amount of his work would have been illegal to print or distribute in Britain.
If there is already this much rioting over something that's legal, how much will this escalate when it becomes illegal to print or broadcast anything the OIC deems blasphemous?
According to a chapter of Massachusetts' detailed "Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases" entitled "Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order," it's illegal to print and distribute information on any substance "preventing, or which is represented as intended to prevent, pregnancy".
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 makes it illegal "to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin".
