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The council said the woman was first prosecuted under the 1996 Education Act in autumn 2011 for failing to ensure her children attended school.

However, it was not until 2001 that a crime was first prosecuted as a hate crime based on gender (Jenness).

In 1967, the South African Parliament passed a Terrorism Act, which was first used to prosecute 37 Namibians opposing the South African regime that ruled their country under a mandate granted by the League of Nations after World War I.

Local prosecutors in Virginia were chosen to be first to prosecute the suspects because Mr. Ashcroft believes that the state offers the best chance of winning death sentences against them.

The department's growing disinclination to prosecute such cases was first noted in an August 2007 report by the board.

The designer Rei Kawakubo has successfully kept Comme des Garçons just as provocative and defiantly crazy-looking as it was when it first prosecuted shock and awe on the runway in the early 1980s.

Barclays agreed to cooperate against other banks involved, and while UBS is the second to be prosecuted, more are yet to come.

Still, the lesson of Guatemala may be that the only way to get the generals to a local court is by first prosecuting them everywhere possible.

pic.twitter.com/dti639xq0U Pyramid schemes are also illegal in the UK, but prosecutions are rare in practice - in September, 11 women were the first to be prosecuted for such a scheme under 2008 legislation that banned them.

More than two dozen journalists have been killed in Somalia in recent years, but Mr. Hassan's death may be the first to be prosecuted.

A prominent Muslim questioned why Muslims had been the first to be prosecuted when witnesses and human rights groups agree that most of the violence had been carried out by Buddhist mobs attacking Muslims.