Word: prison
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Still, if the proposal becomes law, many individuals could be charged with distributing indecent materials to minors over the Internet and face as much as a $100,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison." The measure in effect would take many of the standards of broadcasting and apply them to the Internet. But TIME's Joshua Quittner says broadcast rules don't mesh with the online world. "Broadcast standards are there because there is a limited bandwidth. Only a few people could use it, and because of that they have a responsibility to the public...
...state, China charged prominent dissident Wei Jingsheng with attempting to overthrow the government. Wei, who has enjoyed just six months of freedom since being arrested in 1979 for his leadership of the Democracy Wall movement, was rearrested in April 1994 and held without charge. He now faces a long prison term or possibly even execution...
...conviction of Rosemary West, a former prostitute accused of torturing and killing 10 young women and girls, including her own daughter and stepdaughter. West, 41, maintained her innocence throughout the seven-week trial, blaming the John Wayne Gacyðstyle killings on her husband Frederick, who hanged himself in his prison cell last New Year...
...trader whose freewheeling ways resulted in a $1.4 billion loss and brought down Britain's venerable Barings Bank, was extradited to Singapore, where his transactions occurred. Promptly arrested, he was charged with 11 counts of fraud and forgery. If convicted, he could face as much as 14 years in prison...
More bad news for Nick Leeson. Two days after the former Barings Bank trader was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for the $1.38 billion in unauthorized trades that brought down Britain's oldest bank, he was hit with a court order seeking to prevent him from making money on his story. The order bars Leeson, his wife and his lawyer from earning money by selling their version of the Barings collapse story while Leeson is in Singapore. A lawyer for Leeson says his client, who has signed a deal reportedly five-figure deal to write his life story...