A community punishment order (formerly known as a community service order) requires the offender to perform up to 240 hours of unpaid work.
The second round of the blogger's punishment, ordered to be conducted in public on successive Fridays, was delayed for a second week last week after the Saudi authorities said his wounds from the first 50 strokes had not healed sufficiently.
He was handed a 32-month ban and a 100-hour community service punishment order, but the ban will be reduced to two years if he pays £200 to complete a drink-driving rehabilitation course.
Mai's long battle for justice began in June 2002, when she was gang-raped in a village in Punjab province, a punishment ordered by a rival clan for an alleged affair between her younger brother and a woman from another village.
A12 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Rowland Is Sentenced To 1 Year for Conspiracy Former Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and four months of home confinement, a punishment ordered after the fallen Republican star pleaded guilty in December to a felony conspiracy charge that he accepted $107,000 in gifts and did not pay taxes on them.
Her foster mother held her under scalding water as punishment, ordering another child to help submerge her, according to a criminal child abuse case filed against the woman.
According to Mr. Silva of Gangollim, a survivor of the captivity, if a person who had escaped from Seringapatam was found, the punishment ordered by Tipu was amputation of the ears, nose, feet and one hand.
The radio reporting award went to Ira Glass of the weekly program "This American Life," produced by Chicago Public Media and distributed by Public Radio International, for an episode about punishments ordered by a drug court judge in Georgia.
Another part of the new report suggested that efforts by Congress to cut Acorn's financing could be unconstitutional bills of attainder, a term referring to punishments ordered by Congress against specific individuals or entities.
