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On Tuesday, an announcement was made that the convictions of 20 prominent dissidents were being upheld, despite widespread condemnation over the politicised nature of the judicial process.

He is a former member of Fifa's Transparency and Compliance Committee, a taskforce set up by football's governing body to help ensure "the principles of good governance, transparency and zero tolerance towards any wrongdoing" were being upheld.

The Obama administration has insisted that the terms of a nuclear agreement signed last year with Iran were being upheld after a Washington think tank alleged that Tehran had been granted secret exemptions.

The Trust's director-general, Dame Helen Ghosh, who was the permanent secretary at the environment department until 2010, requested assurances that "high standards of scientific rigour in the conduct and analysis of these pilot culls" were being upheld.

Yet on December 1 , 2008 Charlie Gibson asked Bush, "If the intelligence had been right, would there have been an Iraq war?" Bush responded with an obvious and transparent lie, "Saddam Hussein was unwilling to let the inspectors go in to determine whether or not the U.N. resolutions were being upheld".

We applied a human rights framework using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understand what extent children's basic human rights were being upheld in institutional vs. community- or family-based care settings in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.

What principles are being upheld?

"One sees that certain standards are being upheld," he observes.

Then answer the following questions: Do you feel that these rights are being upheld today?

But Lucas said the incident left her with no confidence that the law on weapons sales was being upheld.

PPI is still by far the biggest source of complaints to the FOS, and more than two-thirds (70 per cent) are being upheld.