Word: prison
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Nelson R. Mandela, eyes at once penetrating and steady, told the guards he refused to jog from the harbor to the prison gates like the other prisoners...
...been sentenced to five years at Robben prison for acting against the injustice of South Africa's apartheid system and would eventually spend 27 years behind bars...
Mandela walked to the prison gates. He later told friends, "Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose...
Adams, for the first time, "unequivocally condemned" a republican bombing. With unprecedented haste and over the objections of civil rights advocates, the governments in both Dublin and London required only two days to pass new anti-terrorist legislation, which will make it easier to send terrorists to prison. The leaders of the Real I.R.A. fled their homes in the Republic, and the organization seems...
CONVICTED. JEAN-PAUL AKAYESU, an ex-mayor from central Rwanda; of genocide; by a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania. It is the first such verdict by an international court. Former Rwandan Prime Minister JEAN KAMBANDA, who pleaded guilty to the crime, was sentenced to life in prison...