One reason for this, of course, is the leadership of Sharif's party is in jail.
In June, they sentenced four members of the ruling party to long jail terms for corruption.
In Saudi Arabia itself, last week, seven men were thrown in jail for establishing a political party.
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Someone leaked Neal's whereabouts, and a lynching party stormed the jail and took Neal, his wrists hogtied, back to Marianna.
"He's got to be the only governor in the United States of America whose former chief of staff is now sitting in jail, " said state Democratic Party Chairman David Leland.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) A Bangladeshi tribunal sentenced a leader of the country's main Islamic party to life in jail Tuesday for his role during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who backed an opposition party, has been in jail since 2003 and was convicted in 2005 on charges of tax evasion and fraud.
After leaving prison in 1990 following more than 27 years in jail, he led the African National Congress party to a landslide victory in 1994 - the first time South Africa's black majority was allowed to vote.
That night, Mr Caroll and four other members of his party were arrested and taken to the jail in the provincial capital, Hinche.
Contact between men and women was made exceedingly dangerous as two Frenchmen found out to their cost in 1998, narrowly avoiding a jail sentence when the Taleban raided an aid agency party.
Thirteen activists and politicians including the leader of the secular Waad party, Ibrahim Sharif, remain in jail, convicted and in some cases given life sentences on evidence that is widely accepted to have been obtained under torture.
Commanders say insurgents threatened bureaucrats into signing phony deeds for homes and land confiscated from former Baath party officials who are now dead, in jail or have fled the country.
Labour justice spokesman Richard Baker said the presumption against prison sentences of three months or less and the rejection of mandatory six-month jail terms for anyone caught carrying a knife meant his party could not support the "flawed legislation".
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Adding to the spectacle, Arias sold drawings from jail throughout the trial on a website operated by a third party, Arias' mother said.
Now, fraud charges carrying four-year jail sentences have been clapped on seven senior figures in the Virtue Party, Welfare's successor, including Recai Kutan, the party's leader.
Then he had a flash of genuine brilliance, scripted or otherwise, by pointing out that the Tory party was full of people who were "either in jail or had just come out of jail".
Three top leaders of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference, the main separatist grouping, are in jail.
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Mr Genoino, a former head of president Lula's Workers Party (PT), was sentenced to nearly seven years in jail, but was allowed to begin his new mandate as a member of Congress.
But Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy said his party was "nothing other than tough" on drugs, with plans to jail drug dealers, more police and more drug rehabilitation.
It is encouraging that people came forward to donate money to pay off Democratic Party Secretary General Chee Soon Juan's fine and keep him out of jail during the election.
When the party raised questions in parliament about the missing money, its leaders were thrown in jail.
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