Word: jails
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...kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where captives are held for ransom. Afghan journalists covering their crimes have been harassed by police or thrown in jail. Last year Samimi received a phone call from General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally who was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as Army Chief of Staff, threatening to have her raped "by 100 men" if she continued investigating a rape case in which he was implicated. Dostum denies ever...
...torture by her own government. “Instead of going to school, me and my siblings had to go up to the mountain and remove branches from pine trees in order to eat them,” said Jo, whose father was accused of treachery and thrown into jail, along with his pregnant wife, by the North Korean government because of his ties to South Korea. Won Myong Hong, a Harvard Business School student originally slated to speak at Friday’s event too, had his remarks precluded when Jo’s story ran well past...
...financial crisis was not caused by an act of God but rather was made by individuals who chose to put the U.S. economy into extreme risk for short-term profit. The risk has come home to roost, and now it’s time for someone to go to jail...
...Obviously, the United States need not go as far as China by executing these hucksters, nor should it react so sensitively as Latvia, where simply bringing up the financial crisis in a public setting can earn you two years in jail. Yet the U.S. justice system can at least make a symbolic gesture in denying the parole of corporate criminals recently convicted for crimes. Their sentences were hailed not long ago for the strong signal they sent to would-be embezzlers; the time is right to use strict enforcement of those sentences to restate that message...
...recently complained that the technically legal actions of executives who profited as Wall Street burned in the past few months were far more damaging and reprehensible than his own theft. Perhaps he’s right; there are some fallen Wall Street executives who ought to join him in jail. They, like he, ought to be made into memorable examples, serving out full terms for their highly destructive crimes...