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...there have been other indicators of change as well. Last fall, an Egyptian man was sentenced to three years in prison in the first known conviction on sexual-harassment charges in the nation's history. In November, the police initiated a harassment crackdown, arresting more than 500 men in a single day - although since then, action to combat the problem has been inconsistent. Women's rights groups are urging that more women take matters into their own hands and file formal complaints - a daunting task, especially as women point to police as being among their daily harassers. "There...
...groups have long said the government uses it capriciously in order to silence its perceived "enemies." In 1999, for example, Beijing used the same law to arrest Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, now living in exile in the U.S. The crime for which she spent more than five years in prison: clipping a newspaper article in China and sending it to her husband...
...friend and foe alike, Kadeer has become the public face of the Uighur movement. A successful businesswoman and local leader, she was jailed by the Chinese authorities in 1999 on charges of betraying state secrets. After her prison term, she was exiled in 2005, and she now lives in the Washington area, where she leads the World Uyghur Congress. Pressure from the U.S. was instrumental in securing her release, and she has forged strong contacts on Capitol Hill. "To blame the civil disturbances and bloodshed on human-rights leader Rebiya Kadeer is ludicrous," Representative Chris Smith, a senior member...
According to Pierre, O'Brien faces a maximum penalty of 13 felonies, each carrying a maximum sentence of five years in state prison, along with five misdemeanors, each carrying a maximum sentence of 2.5 years in a house of corrections. While the sentence could aggregate to nearly 80 years of jail time, Pierre said a judge will ultimately determine how the sentences are distributed...
SENTENCED On June 22, former Deputy Interior Minister of Rwanda Callixte Kalimanzira, 54, was given 30 years in prison by a U.N. tribunal for his role in the deaths of thousands of Tutsi during the country's 1994 genocide...