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...Iran's hard-line mullahs were behind a series of vigilante attacks on reform-minded intellectuals. Among the evidence: a videotaped admission she had obtained from a former vigilante. This was dangerous information. As a law professor and activist, Ebadi understood the risks; she could be dragged off to jail by the Islamic regime, or assaulted herself. "Fear, like hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than...
After their arrest, Beckett and Elfenbein, along with Jordan A.A. Bar Am ’04 and Rachel S. Bloomekatz ’04, were kept in a paddy wagon for six hours. Once at the jail, they said they felt that the police continued to violate their rights...
...Muslims; Nehru offered shelter in his house for Muslims during the riots that followed India's independence. Islam, in Nehru's view, was a fundamental part of India's culture. His great treatise on his nation's history, The Discovery of India, written when he was put in jail by the British, describes the mind-boggling diversity of religions, cultures, kingdoms and empires that have coexisted in India as facets of a single timeless civilization that had lain dormant under British rule but was about to awaken with terrific force. His ability to convey this mystical vision of a great...
...campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent politicians to jail. GNP members are also under investigation: GNP lawmaker Choi Don Woong has already admitted to taking $8.3 million from...
...Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, one of the top designers of radar systems for China's military. Under her plea agreement, Gao agreed to forfeit $505,000 she earned in the sales and was convicted of tax evasion. She could be sentenced to 10 years in jail...