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...Department of Justice is currently investigating the violation of Carter's ban, Robert Havel, spokesman for the Justice Department, said yesterday. The violators of the ban are liable for up to $50,000 in fines or ten years in jail under the Emergency Economic Powers Act, Havel added...
Although no fines or charges will be levied until after their return from Iran, the criminal division of the Justice Department will conduct and investigation into the case in conjunction with the State and Treasury departments, Havel said...
...Havel said the nine were in direct violation of the ban and that Robert M. Smith, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, issued a statement last Friday warning the group of Carter's pronouncement. Havel added that the cases will be examined individually...
...Paris bar and UNESCO, Pettiti was appointed to the French seat on the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year. He has counseled some celebrated East European dissidents: Anatoli Shcharansky, whose 1978 Moscow trial for "treason" he was forbidden to attend, and Czechoslovak Playwright Vaclav Havel, who was convicted of "subversion...
...most notably Czechoslovakia. There, the particular target of Party Chief Gustav Husak's secret police is the movement that has grown over the past three years around Charter 77, a human rights manifesto signed by 1,000 people. Last month six Charter 77 organizers, among them Playwright Vaclav Havel, received sentences of up to five years for "subversion of the republic." Since then more than 25 Charter 77 signers have been hauled in for questioning on various trumped-up charges, including attempts to blow up a Prague bridge and to assassinate Husak...