Last month Erdoğan's lawyer even requested the prosecution in Germany of Jan Böhmermann, a German comedian who read out a poem alleged to have denigrated the Turkish president.
(The violence there led to an extraordinary letter sent on Monday, signed by more than 50 countries, exhorting the Security Council to request a prosecution).
The little-used paragraph of the German legal code that had allowed the Turkish president to request the prosecution is likely to be scrapped in the aftermath of the affair.
In addition to the prison sentence, which was the minimum requested by the prosecution.
The prosecution requested subpoenas on the Allied Banking Corporation, Bank of Commerce, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, Philippine National Bank, United Overseas Bank and Equitable-P.C.I.
Kellie Kirkner requested immunity from prosecution -- she, too, had hit and struck her spouse, she eventually testified.
The prosecution requested a sentence of 12 years for Mr. Soares; the maximum penalty was the death sentence.
The five-judge panel in Denpasar, the capital of Bali, said it had taken Mr. Imron's stated regrets into account but declined to give the lesser sentence of 20 years that was requested by the prosecution.
The sentence, which will see Sandiford shot by a firing squad on the beach, was harsher than the 15 years in jail requested by the prosecution.
