The Agence France-Presse reported harsher punishments, including collective punishment for families of defectors.

法新社报道了对叛逃者的严酷惩罚，包括对其家人的株连。

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In some industrialized countries, counterfeiting t-shirts receives a harsher punishment than counterfeiting medicines.

在一些工业化国家，制造假冒T恤衫受到的惩罚力度要比惩罚制造假冒药物严厉。

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The police make the punishment harsher for all kinds of crime.

警察对所有形式的犯罪采取更为严厉的惩戒办法。

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Harsher punishment has been tried, with tough minimum sentences introduced in 1997, but seems to have had little effect.

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Meanwhile, India's political parties are taking part in previously scheduled meetings to discuss harsher punishment for rapists, including the death penalty.

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Mr Acheson has argued the 40 subscribers should have faced a harsher punishment - they were given a warning by the ICO.

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