Word: jails
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...Amman, was refused permission to open an art school in Ramallah last year because he declined to paint a portrait of Yasser Arafat. Early last year, the board of Hakawati, the Palestinian National Theater, canceled The Last Hour, a play in which a prisoner newly released from an Israeli jail holds a dialogue with his own impotent penis - a far cry from the typical heroic portrayals of prisoners in previous Palestinian art. The playwright, Mazen Saadeh, describes the fate of his play as a prime example of the conflict between political oldsters and the new generation. "This new movement...
Bush's path to the 2005 Heisman began 130 miles down I-5 in San Diego, where he grew up in a blue-collar family with mother Denise, a deputy sheriff in a county jail; stepfather LaMar, a security officer; and half brother Jovan, 14. Bush's relationship with his biological father, which he describes as a "a roller coaster," complicated his childhood. "It was tough with both sides of the family not getting along too well," he says. "[I was] caught in a tug-of-war." Bush calls LaMar his father (during his Heisman acceptance speech, Bush broke down...
Fitzgerald sent New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail for refusing to testify in front of a federal grand jury regarding an anonymous source...
CLARIFICATION: The print and original online version of this story stated that New York Times reporter Judith Miller was sent to jail for refusing to identify an anonymous source. In fact, she was imprisoned after refusing to testify in front of a federal grand jury regarding her source...
...apartments of several students who had e-mailed each other cartoons lampooning Lukashenko. The youths now face trial and stiff prison terms. Late last month, the rubber-stamp legislature passed a bill outlawing virtually every form of political dissent and authorizing wider use of pretrial detention, and stiffer jail sentences. It will come into effect just as the presidential election campaign kicks off. "Of course you'll elect me," the Batska declared earlier this month. "What else can you do?" Western nations have criticized Lukashenko's regime, but have done little else. Last April, while attending a nato meeting...