Word: jails
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...Khmer Rouge tribunal - whereby she and other Khmer Rouge victims are participating in the criminal proceedings with their own set of lawyers. On Friday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the tribunal - finished hearing its first case. Prosecutors sought a 40-year jail sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, (pronounced Doik) who ran the notorious S-21 prison, a Phnom Penh high school transformed into an interrogation center where Duch is accused of overseeing the grisly deaths of approximately 15,000 people. Over the last six months of hearings, the court...
...Since then, two auditors of Satyam's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have been sitting in an Indian jail, accused of abetting the scheme. Narayana, the CBI deputy director general, said there was evidence indicating their involvement but declined to elaborate. Following the release of the CBI report, a PwC spokeswoman declined comment; the accounting firms top India executive in March denied any of its employees were involved in wrongdoing...
...ablaze by derivatives, so-called financial weapons of mass destruction, put the economy on the brink of collapse. We will be sorting through the damage for years. Meanwhile, the living, breathing symbol of this economic sordidness, prisoner No. 61727-054, a.k.a. Bernie Madoff, rots away in a Butner, N.C., jail cell, doing 150 years for orchestrating the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of humanity...
...confinement for refusing to confess to spying for British "running-dog imperialists." Among the evidence gathered for the false charge: her London education, collection of classical-music records and taste for marmalade. Stripped of her name, Prisoner 1806 lost her daughter--killed by Red Guards while Cheng was in jail--but never her resolve. Released in 1973, she eventually settled in Washington, where she died Nov. 2 at 94. Even after China embraced economic reforms and shed much of its communist rigor, Cheng never returned home. The country she loved had disappeared long...
...also killed by a group of rebellious army officers. The case fell into legal limbo, and the feuding between the two women and their political parties grew so rancorous over the years that the military once again stepped in, throwing both Hasina and Zia temporarily into jail. (Read: "Keeping Dhaka's Ghosts Alive...