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- Sarkozy suffers 'punishment vote' in French local polls: Socialists
- PARIS AFP — Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party suffered losses in French local elections Sunday, poll projections showed, in what the opposition Socialists called a "punishment vote" for the reforming president. The vote, the first major test of Sarkozy's popularity since he defeated the Socialist Segelone Royal last May, was...
- Research articles 2008-03-16
- Century Foundation's Best and Worst of 2007: Law and Order -- by Niko Karvounis.
- Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 3 AScribe Newswire -- Following is commentary by Niko Karvounis, Program Assistant at The Century Foundation. - - - - Law and order had an interesting year in 2007. No,...
- Research articles 2008-01-03
- Up to Saudis to review punishment, US says
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US State Department Tuesday voiced its "astonishment" at the sentencing of a Saudi victim of rape to 200 lashes and six months in jail but stopped short of calling for it to be changed. "I think when you look at the crime and the fact...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
- Time to terrify the little thugs
- I KEEP hearing the phrase "wrong place, wrong time" like it's some kind of grotesque justification for the anarchy that is raging on Britain's streets. Last week 11-year-old Rhys Jones was apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time and he paid for it with a...
- Research articles 2007-08-26
- Pardons hard to come by as executions mount in Saudi
- RIYADH AFP — Not even the king can save a convict on death row for premeditated murder from the executioner's sword in Saudi Arabia. The death penalty is here to stay in the ultra-conservative kingdom, where there has been a dramatic spike in the number of executions this year...
- Research articles 2007-06-08
- Putin's 'skewed vision' threatens freedom: US lawmaker
- WASHINGTON AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin's "skewed vision of crime and punishment" threatens to stifle post-Soviet freedoms, a senior US lawmaker and foreign policy expert warned Thursday. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House of Representatives committee on Foreign Affairs, warned that Russian politics was approaching an "ominous autumn"...
- Research articles 2007-05-17
- Execution of Saddam's henchmen stirs more criticism
- BAGHDAD AFP — Hundreds of Sunni Arabs were paying their respects to former henchmen of Saddam Hussein convicted of crimes against humanity and buried near the former Iraqi dictator's own grave after a gruesome hanging. The controversy stirred up by Saddam's botched execution was fueled further when the hanging of...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- Angelos' sentence unjust
- Weldon Angelos hardly could be described as a sympathetic character. He was convicted of 16 counts of federal firearms, drug and money-laundering counts in December 2003. He carried a pistol while selling about $350 worth of marijuana to an undercover informant, although he did not brandish or use the gun...
- Research articles 2006-12-08
- China issues new regulation to stem fraud among scientists
- BEIJING AFP — China is getting tougher on fraud and plagiarism among scientists after a series of high-profile scandals this year, a science ministry official was reported saying. Academics will be punished if they falsify resumes, plagiarize or fabricate scientific data, or violate rules governing research on humans and animals,...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- US terror pact sows new legal battle
- WASHINGTON AFP — A legal battle over how to interrogate and try top Al-Qaeda terror suspects is set to rage on for years, despite a high-stakes election-season pact between the White House and rebel Republicans. Analysts said a draft law sent to the Senate late Friday laying down new rules...
- Research articles 2006-09-24
- Legal battle can be avoided if sentence reduced, say Juve
- ROME AFP — Juventus president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli says a legal battle in the civil courts over their punishment for match-fixing can be avoided if the Italian football authorities reduce their punishment. The Turin club were thrown into Serie B from Italy's top division and given a 17-point penalty for...
- Research articles 2006-08-28
- Palestinian PM slams 'collective punishment'
- GAZA CITY AFP — Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya has slammed an Israeli offensive as "collective punishment" against the Palestinians and demanded the international community intervene to end it. "What Israel is doing is exposing its plan to reoccupy large sectors of the Gaza Strip, strike its infrastructure, impose...
- Research articles 2006-07-06
- While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
- * Here at the magazine, a regular scanning of Publishers Weekly is a must. It offers brief anonymous reviews of forthcoming books. Some of the reviewers are more than competent, while others are, well, judge for yourself. A Life in Secrets is about Vera Atkins, a high-ranking...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Beslan hostage-taker found guilty of terrorism, murder
- VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia AFP — Nurpashi Kulayev, the sole surviving hostage-taker involved in the 2004 Beslan school massacre, was pronounced guilty of terrorism, hostage-taking and murder. "The court has established that Kulayev took part in an armed attack and a hostage-taking..., that he committed murder against defenceless people," said Tamerlan...
- Research articles 2006-05-16
- Santander brace for punishment over racist abuse of Eto'o
- MADRID AFP — Spanish club Racing Santander were bracing for disciplinary action after Barcelona's Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o was subjected to racist abuse yet again at the weekend. Santander's fans bombarded Eto'o with monkey chants in the latest racist incident to blight Spanish football and now face punishment from...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- The Prudent Jurist
- A COLD NIGHT IN THE WOODS is not exactly Abu Ghraib. Still, this punishment does sound like a modest form of torture, especially since the judge announced his intention to induce "humiliation and embarrassment." The night in the woods won't help the aggrieved kittens, so we...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- China detains 11 people in connection with deadly coal mine flooding
- BEIJING, AFP — China detained 11 people over the flooding of an unlicensed mine and warned of severe punishment for anyone ignoring safety regulations as the search continued for 122 missing workers. The 11 -- who include the mine's owner, manager, board chairman and chief technician -- fled after...
- Research articles 2005-08-11
- Iraq prison abuse mistrial raises questions
- FORT HOOD, United States AFP — Lynndie England, the US soldier who became the face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, is expected to still see prison despite the mistrial declared at her court-martial. But experts say her eventual punishment will do little to repair the damage caused by...
- Research articles 2005-05-05
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Conviction.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 May 2005-US STATE DEPARTMENT: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ConvictionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29042005 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced Mikaeli Muhimana on April 28 to life imprisonment, the maximum punishment permissible. He was found guilty of genocide...
- Research articles 2005-05-02
- 'A good beating never hurt anyone': the punishment and abuse of children in twentieth century Ireland
- Introduction In recent years serious allegations have been made against the male and female religious orders that ran children's homes, including industrial schools, in twentieth-century Ireland. (1) These allegations range from sexual abuse to neglect of educational, training, and employment opportunities to malnutrition and starvation. One of the most...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
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