Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases where a woman has committed a violent crime, Whatley claims that the litigant is "much more likely to go to jail with a female judge. A male judge may think, `Look at the poor little thing.'" In cases of domestic abuse, Gershengorn says that women display "more sensitivity to women seeking restraining orders...
...Sharpeville Six, five black men and one black woman sentenced under the so-called common-purpose law for joining a mob that murdered a black official in 1984. International leaders had long pleaded with Botha to pardon the six. He finally did, but they must still serve jail terms of from 18 to 25 years...
Next day the government announced that Nelson Mandela, 70, will not return to jail when he finishes hospital treatment for tuberculosis. But the spiritual head of the banned African National Congress will not be set free, either. He will be transferred to what the government described as "suitable, comfortable and secure" living accommodations -- possibly a house on prison grounds. By freeing Mandela in stages, Botha apparently hopes to avoid having the ailing black leader die in jail and thus become a martyr...
Almost every day on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers arrest and jail hundreds of Palestinian teenagers without charges or trial, beat dozens of protestors and shoot the most threatening...
...police to quell demonstrating students and dissidents. Citizens want the money back or Chun on trial. The mounting pressure seems to have reached the ex-President. He is expected to go on television this week to apologize for the perfidy, which has already landed nine of his relatives in jail. In exchange for a pardon, Chun will reportedly return some of his ill-gotten gains to the government and retire to the country outside Seoul...