Sentence examples for suffer imprisonment from inspiring English sources

But it did not stop there, for if the Birmingham Six were innocent, then others were guilty – and had not only committed a terrible crime but had allowed the innocent to suffer imprisonment in their place.

The group was protesting "on behalf of tens of thousands of innocent people who suffer imprisonment, torture or even death at the hands of their own government in China," said a message released by Falun Gong officials abroad.

5,000 British witches and wizards, calling themselves "mediums" and organized in the Spiritualists National Union, are campaigning for the abolition of the Witchcraft Act of 1732 which provides that "if any person or persons shall pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, Inchantment, or conjuration, every person so offending shall suffer imprisonment".

It has Bert Cates suffer imprisonment for using his mind.

Having since suffered imprisonment and a long exile, Mr Sharif wants revenge.

In the distant past, Sorokin might have suffered imprisonment, or worse; now the protests of Kremlin supporters seem to have made him more popular.

Holding cabinet posts throughout World War II, he largely consolidated the Finnish working class behind the war effort and suffered imprisonment thereafter on Soviet insistence.

But if the hymn was simply a bromide how did it nourish Gandhi as he suffered imprisonment, assault and near-death fasts?

For Haitians who had suffered imprisonment or torture under his regime, or who had been forced into exile themselves, Duvalier's unapologetic presence in the country was shocking.

He spent the next 27 years in jail but Madikizela-Mandela, who had two daughters with him, took up the struggle and regularly suffered imprisonment and torture.

Refugees have been through experiences which are hard for us to imagine, with some having been shot or involved in explosions and many having suffered imprisonment or torture.