Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lives are more alike than we think." At Palm Sunday service, a black woman got up to say she believes in miracles because the last of several boys in her family was graduating from college, despite the fact that so many young black men are on drugs, in jail or dead. Stroupe also changed Oakhurst's music, switching from stiffer Presbyterian hymns to songs from the black gospel tradition. At first the choir director resisted, purposefully playing off tune during gospel hymns. Now the church has its own mostly black gospel choir. No one in it knows how to read...
Limits remain, though. The press is still tightly censored, and outspokenness is punished. Duong Thu Huong, whose 1988 novel Paradise of the Blind portrayed the communist system as exploitative and corrupt, spent six months in jail in 1991 and remains under surveillance. Two of the country's most prominent Buddhist prelates are in prison or under house arrest for political activities. Though many of the country's leaders are themselves Buddhists, they are determined to keep religion from undermining their authority...
...editors of Israel's two leading daily newspapers are now sitting in jail while authorities investigate allegations that the press barons ordered illegal wiretaps against each other as part of an all-out circulation war. Today, dozens of police poured into the Tel Aviv headquarters of Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind...
...killed, so she should be in jail," agreedSheila Exilhomme, a senior...
...convicted in the arts case, he could faceadditional jail or probation time...