Word: jails
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...fewer than 28 inconsistencies in the original court's conduct-the case was appealed all the way to the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, which recommended a retrial, as did several lower courts. In all, the case has been retried five times. Yet all four men remain in jail 13 years later. "Even for China, this is an unusual case," says law professor Xu Zhiyong, a legal adviser to the defendants' families, "because it is so clear that these men are innocent...
...murder, his son was "sitting right there," Yang says, pointing to a window in the family home. "We played mah-jongg from seven o'clock until two in the morning." He pauses for a moment, overcome by emotion, then continues. "Every time I visit him in the jail he asks me the same thing," Yang says, without looking up. "'When can I come home, father? When can I come home?' I don't believe there is justice in China anymore...
...Ismaeen, who wears a muscle shirt and has the dark, heavy-lidded eyes of an Egyptian pop star. Ismaeen boasts that from age 15 onward, he spent five years inside Israeli prisons. "For throwing stones?" I ask. "Well, stones and Molotov cocktails," Ismaeen says, grinning. Serving time in Israeli jail is a rite of passage for young Palestinians, though Omar says--with chagrin--that he himself spent only "a little time" in prison: a year...
...actually round them up and send them back? Well, yeah you could. It's possible. But it's not necessary. You can do what I call attrition through enforcement. If you enforce the laws against hiring people who are here illegally, aggressively. Not just with fines, but with jail time for folks who are found to be not just hiring but conspiring to bring people in. Believe me, you'd only have to do that a few times in high profile cases and you would see that the number of folks willing to actually take that risk go down dramatically...
...Breath. There are two Korean films among the 21 in competition for the Palme d'Or, and both have a scene in which an obsessive woman visits a killer in jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who came to international prominence with The Isle (or, as aficionados describe it, the erotic fish-hook movie) and has ben paring down his style ever since, in Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring Again and the near-wordless 3-Iron. His new film is more conventional, not so rewarding. Yeon...