Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Biko. Their ignorance was understandable; the white minority government of his country had done its best to silence him, by restricting his movement and the circulation of his ideas, and by threatening him with detention. Finally, it silenced him in the most permanent way possible: he died on a jail cell floor, one more victim of a system that is as ruthless as it is racist...
...result was the end of apartheid. At 30, Stephen Biko became another martyr for the liberation struggle. It is hard to believe that, so long as apartheid continues to impose injustice daily on the people of South Africa, there will not be many more, dying in jail cells and on the streets, so that their children can walk tall and free...
...Edward DiPietro, aged 35, and Joseph Maggio, aged 31, await sentencing on June 5 by U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. They each face jail terms of up to five years and/or fines...
...Geralds will be sentenced on a conviction of having embezzled $24,000 from a woman who was his legal client. According to the charges, he used $13,000 to buy stock and $11,000 as a down payment for an office building. He faces up to ten years in jail. Last month his license to practice law was lifted for three years. Since then, Geralds' sole income has been his $24,000 annual salary as a legislator. But, unlike any other Michigan lawmaker convicted of a felony in the state legislature's 143-year history, he has refused...
...spent a secluded year and a half in her family's home in Hillsborough, Calif., since she was released on $1 million bail after 14 months in prison. But last week it looked as though Patty Hearst might have to go back to jail; the Supreme Court let stand her conviction for robbing a bank. Her lawyers immediately asked the federal judge who had given her seven years to reduce the sentence. If the judge says no, Patty will have to spend another 14 months behind bars before she is eligible for parole...