Word: jails
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...hardly anyone in Washington could say they were surprised when it turned out that Libby was the long-secret source for New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail this summer rather than tell federal prosecutors exactly to whom she spoke in 2003 about a CIA operative whose diplomat-husband had criticized the President's justifications for the war in Iraq. Libby had been a confidential source for at least three other reporters--including TIME's Matthew Cooper--who received subpoenas in the case. All three eventually spoke to prosecutors after receiving a waiver of confidentiality...
...beyond the country's borders. The charge against Pamuk - that he insulted Turkey's good name by discussing the mass killings of Armenians and Turkey's Kurdish conflict in an interview with a Swiss newspaper - carries a possible three-year sentence. (In practice, Pamuk is unlikely to go to jail and the publicity surrounding the case has embarrassed the government.) "No country can shoot itself in the foot," said Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, ruefully, "like Turkey can." The charges were brought by a prosecutor aligned with nationalist causes. "These people will find a reason, any time and anywhere...
Spain's Audiencia Nacional sentenced the Syrian businessman Edin Barrakat, alias Abu Dahdah, alleged leader of Al Qaeda in Spain, to 27 years in jail for his role in the 9/11 attacks. His sentence is considerably less than the 74,337 years demanded by the prosecution, after Abu Dahdah was found guilty of conspiracy in an act of terrorism over 9/11, but not guilty of the murder of 2,973 victims of that day's attacks. The court sentenced 17 of Barrakat's fellow accused to between six and 11 years in jail, and acquitted the remaining...
...from the scene of one fire, and wary New Yorkers–who read all about slave revolts in the Caribbean and South Carolina–began to cry, “The Negroes are rising!” Blacks out on the streets were corralled and tossed in jail...
...college-aged men from New Hampshire served a stint in Cambridge jail last Saturday after they attempted to gain entry into Harvard affiliate housing by scaling a fire escape...