Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed more surprised by the unprecedented swap of political prisoners than Corvalán and Bukovsky. Until Thursday of last week. Bukovsky had been immured in the infamous Vladimir Prison in central Russia. Moved on Friday to a Moscow jail, the Russian began to suspect that something was afoot. But not until he was placed aboard a specially chartered Aeroflot jet bound for Zurích did he know that he had been freed. Bukovsky's mother Nina, his sister Olga and his nephew Mikhail were also flown to Switzerland to join him in exile. Simultaneously, Corval...
Last week the Observer and the News simultaneously published an expose that accused the sheriff of misuse of funds, nepotism, violence and gross noncompliance with the law. It reported that inmates in the county jail had been blackjacked.Maced and sexually assaulted; one man said his broken leg went without medical attention for five days. The newspapers also alleged that Long had employees kick back 2% of their pay into what may be a political fund. The report quotes Long as boasting...
Seven members of The World's staff were arrested in the police action, and four reporters remain in jail under laws that permit detention without trials, the New York Times reported yesterday...
...make a choice whether to be outspoken and go to jail where you'll be silenced, or to take a milder platform so you can keep working," he said last year...
About the last place one would expect to find the head of a giant business is in jail. Nonetheless, there is a strong chance that R. Harper Brown, president of Container Corp. of America (1975 sales: $953 million) will spend several weeks next year in Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Facility. He was the most important of 47 executives from 22 companies who pleaded no contest to federal charges of fixing prices on folding-cardboard boxes between 1960 and 1974. Last week Federal Judge James Parsons sentenced Brown to 60 days in jail and fined him $35,000; 14 other...