Sentence examples for is being imprisoned from inspiring English sources

It is a tragedy that a man is being imprisoned for 11 years merely because he expressed his opinion.

How can Yasir Arafat possibly halt suicide bombings when he is being imprisoned in two rooms without access to telephones, fax machines or e-mail?

Remember that if the bully is is imprisoned for what they have done they won't be able to hurt you.

I went on a hunger strike for two years because no one would tell me why I was being imprisoned.

He is suing the government for breaking human rights laws in the way he's being imprisoned.

It is ironic however that pacifists in Iran are being imprisoned for daring to speak out in favor of peace.

He gave a short, forceful speech about Tibetans — "They're being tortured, they're being imprisoned, they're being executed, but they've never given up" — and, when it was over, I asked him what he made of the turnout.

During the 1880s, when Luxemburg was entering adolescence, Polish and Russian women were being imprisoned and executed for their part in the revolutionary underground.

In Bahrain the government used the grand prix to project a very different image to what was happening in the streets, where demonstrators were being bludgeoned, where protesters were being imprisoned".

"Worse and worse types of fighters arrived; they were fanatical: they hated everyone, those who studied religion, like us, were being imprisoned or killed because we didn't agree with their strange version of Islam.

On Monday, David Rowley, a University of Chicago geologist who is a longtime acquaintance of Dr. Xue, contended that Dr. Xue was being imprisoned for buying information that had no impact on China's security.