Sentence examples for prosecuted under article from inspiring English sources

Torture is outlawed in Russia, but it is not explicitly defined in the country's legal code and was traditionally prosecuted under article 286, "Abuse of power", and article 302, "Coercion to give evidence".

Several authors bound for Frankfurt, including Pamuk, Elif Shafak and Perihan Magden, have been prosecuted under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code, which prohibits "insulting Turkishness" - notably by mentioning the Armenian massacres of 1915-17.

This is because when a person is prosecuted under Article 112, Thai society is prepared to be silent and condemn the accused as disloyal to the monarchy.

Critics are prosecuted under Article 8 of the Anti-Terror Act and Article 301 of the Penal Code, which are used to silence dissent.

The boys in Diyarbakir are being prosecuted under Article 299 of the Turkish penal code, a provision that watchdogs have long criticized as a crude provision that is designed to stifle and discourage political dissent.

This was the first case that the ICC has prosecuted under Article 28 of the Rome Statute, a treaty which established the ICC's mandate and which brings into question a leader's liability for commanding his or her troops.

Hundreds of Turkish academics and writers, including Orhan Pamuk, a Nobel prize-winner, have been prosecuted under this article.

And this prosecution proves that, because Lay and Skilling were prosecuted under pre-Sarbanes-Oxley laws.

In 1980, Mr. Fauvet and an editorial writer, Phillipe Boucher, were prosecuted under an obscure law on charges of "attacking the authority and independence of the judiciary" by publishing articles that criticized court rulings in a political scandal.

Only three such cases were prosecuted under all previous presidents.

Currently, however, buyers are not being prosecuted under federal law.