Sentence examples for prosecution for refusing from inspiring English sources

More white farmers have been murdered and 170 face prosecution for refusing to leave their land.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James Risen is to this day ​facing possible prosecution for refusing to reveal the identity of his one of sources to the authorities.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James Risen is to this day ​facing possible prosecution for refusing to reveal the identity of his one of sources to the authorities.

WASHINGTON -- Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the furor over the agency's alleged targeting of politically active nonprofits, will not face prosecution for refusing to testify before Congress, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.

What's more, anyone who is involved with the "gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting or publishing of news and information for dissemination to the public" will be considered a "journalist," and will be shielded from prosecution for refusing to comply with a federal court's demand for naming names, or supplying documents.

If the witness unequivocally and intelligently waives any objection based on the Self-Incrimination Clause, or if the witness refuses a committee request to state whether he relies on the Self-Incrimination Clause, he cannot later invoke its protection in a prosecution for contempt for refusing to answer that question.

It's unclear whether Facebook will face criminal prosecution in the UK for refusing to remove potentially illegal terrorist and child exploitation content.

In perhaps the most egregious instance of its kind, New York Times reporter James Risen was threatened with federal prosecution for seven years for refusing to testify in the espionage trial of former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling.

Cornered by the prosecution, the defendant fires his lawyer for refusing to provide "an alternative" explanation.

Purdy has accused the director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, of "cowardice" for refusing to give guidance on the law.

Two have had their cases disposed of in juvenile court; three have pleaded guilty, and one no longer faces prosecution but is serving a six‐month sentence for refusing to testify under a new immunity law.