Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government insisted that the strike had been ineffective. Nonetheless, authorities filed criminal charges against 17 walkout leaders, including Gonzalez, accusing them of subversion, and cracked down hard on the media. A total of 27 staff members from the opposition magazine Analisis were charged with antigovernment activities, and could face prison terms if convicted. Four independent radio stations, one of them run by the Roman Catholic Church, were ordered to halt news broadcasts during the protests. Strike organizers were especially encouraged by the participation of truckers. In 1973 a crippling work stoppage by drivers against the Marxist-oriented government of Salvador...
Abbas and two fellow fugitives were given life sentences, but the hijacker accused of actually killing the 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer received a lesser sentence--30 years in prison...
Three of the hijackers, who were among the five defendants in custody, received prison terms ranging from 15 to 30 years. Prosecutor Luigi Francesco Meloni said he probably would appeal for stiffer sentences...
...other convicted fugitives sentenced to life in prison were Ozzuddin Badrakkam, described as the Palestine Liberation Front's military chief, and Ziad el Omar, who bought the hijackers' cruise tickets...
...said that Cantley was a "disloyal former employee" and that if he and his associates had broken any laws, they did so in "violation of Shearson Lehman's own policies." Through his attorney, Cantley asserted his innocence. If convicted, the former broker could be sentenced to 198 years in prison and fined $16 million...