Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cult members were taken to jail and charged with murder. The children were washed, deloused and turned over to city welfare agencies. The house was leveled to the ground by a wrecking crew...
...contempt charge carries a penalty of up to six months in jail...
...protesters who stayed outside the construction site were charged with disorderly conduct, which can also bring a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $1000 fine...
Just what Treu did wrong was not spelled out in the charge. Treu himself is not allowed to say; if he does, he will go to jail. He is likely to be imprisoned anyway because he has been found guilty. On what evidence? No one is allowed to explain that either. His year-long trial at Montreal's Palais de Justice, which concluded last April, was conducted in secret. All that has been revealed is his sentence: two years in jail...
...First Amendment and ambiguous espionage laws, the U.S. press is not nearly so hamstrung by Government secrecy as its British and Canadian counterparts, who could not get away with printing something like the Pentagon papers. As for American public servants who disclose Government information, they can land in jail only if the information harms the national defense (though just what material should be classified secret remains hotly debated). To plug less serious leaks, the U.S. has tried to use other tools. Example: Snepp was not charged with disclosing classified information but with violating his secrecy oath, which the CIA, State...