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...late February. "They use the people and our neighbors to try to shame us." As Dai found out, though, Vietnam's rulers are also willing to use the courts to silence critics. He was arrested on March 6 and on May 11 was sentenced to five years in prison for "spreading propaganda against the Socialist Republic," under Article 88 of Vietnam's criminal code...
Citing "Overwhelming" evidence, a U.S. district judge wrapped up one of the Bush Administration's most embarrassing episodes by giving I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, 2 1/2 years in prison for lying to federal investigators about his role in the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. The sentence is longer than the minimum recommended by federal guidelines, and the judge said he sees no likely justification for an appeal. Libby, 56, the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since Iran-contra, could go to jail within...
...JACK KEVORKIAN, just released from an eight-year prison stint for helping more than 130 people commit suicide, on how he promised a parole board to refrain from assisting others...
...a.k.a. the Black Rose, did her homeland proud by pummeling her feisty Japanese opponent to capture the World Boxing Council light-flyweight title. The only catch? Siriporn is currently doing 10 years in a Bangkok jail for drug dealing, and her title bout had to be staged in a prison compound. She appears to be the first fighter to win a world title while behind bars...
...three years off her sentence. That means that on June 13, the Black Rose will sashay out of the high-security Women's Correctional Institution for Drug Addicts, where she first learned boxing three years ago in part to protect herself from more aggressive jail-mates. (Siriporn also took prison courses in cooking, hairdressing and sewing, but none captured her imagination as much as boxing...