"I am disappointed and concerned at the decision of the Bahraini Court of Appeal to uphold the harsh sentences against Mr Abdulhadi Khawaja and nineteen other individuals," she added.
This week, it upheld a harsh Indiana voter ID law that could disenfranchise many poor, elderly and student voters.
But, they said, they might be swayed if America were to free Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist sentenced to 86 years in an American jail after trying to shoot soldiers and FBI agents while under interrogation in Afghanistan.The inevitable anti-American protests Mr Davis has provoked have partially merged with another campaign: to uphold Pakistan's harsh law against blasphemy.
The Supreme Court last month upheld Indiana's harsh voter ID law (pdf), which requires voters to present government-issued photo ID — something many registered voters don't have.
The fallout from Justin Gatlin's admission on Saturday of a positive drug test has rattled the track and field world, prompting the sport's international federation to say it would pursue a lifetime ban of Gatlin if a doping offense were upheld and turning a harsh spotlight on the shortcomings of the current system.
It's true that other negative factors, such as a federal judge's upholding of North Carolina's harsh voter ID law this week -- which was pushed and signed by McCrory -- will no doubt come into play.
The Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court upheld the conviction and unusually harsh sentence of the advocate, Liu Xiaobo.
The Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court upheld the conviction and unusually harsh sentence of Liu Xiaobo, a Beijing scholar who played an important role in organizing Charter 08, a document issued by him and other intellectuals in December 2008 that called for political and legal reforms.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that imposes harsh penalties on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
In May, the court upheld a different Arizona law, one that imposed harsh penalties on businesses that employed illegal immigrants.
