When he was imprisoned for 26 years, it was up to her to continue his work.
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Free speech was further crippled when the conservatives imprisoned a prominent human-rights activist over a videotape scandal.
Ms Chen's ordeal began in 2003 when her husband was imprisoned for attempting to breach a quarantine during a Sars epidemic, according to the Global Times newspaper.
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President Bush kept a list of two dozen senior terrorists in the Oval Office and reportedly crossed out their photographs when they were eliminated or imprisoned.
There is no way to know exactly when the former dictator, imprisoned in Baghdad since his capture in December 2003, will be cleared for a trial.
In some of her darkest moments, when Aung San Suu Kyi was imprisoned, she wrote an essay about freedom from fear.
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In his home country of Argentina, however, some critics have raised questions about the pope's actions during years of military dictatorship, when two priests in his order were imprisoned by authorities.
"We should not be sending people to be tried in foreign courts and then, if convicted, imprisoned away from family and friends when it is perfectly feasible to try them in the courts in this country, " she said.
This in turn enabled her to act as though she were utterly innocent, even when claiming to be the cousin of an imprisoned Scottish captain, or chatting to a Gestapo officer with 200lb of illegal pork in her suitcase.
But Israel has not identified the man, said why he was imprisoned, explained how he committed suicide when he was under 24-hour surveillance or explained why the case was hidden from the public for more than two years.
Nivens' mother was killed when he was 4 years old, and his father was imprisoned for her murder.
When they were smuggled out of Cuba and published abroad, Arenas was imprisoned.
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When the boat finally washed back ashore, the 10 people left alive were imprisoned.
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In his book Why Crime Rates Fell, he says sentencing was lenient in the 60s and 70s, when crime rose, and then more prisons were built and more offenders were imprisoned.
Some fear a return to the excesses of the 1990s, when over 3, 000 Kurdish villages were forcibly evacuated and thousands of Kurds were imprisoned, murdered or disappeared.
To the contrary, students who were imprisoned for their parts in a1999 uprising say that they found the courage to remain strong in jail when word reached them that not only did the outside world know of their plight, but was speaking out forcefully on their behalf .
The Securities and Exchange Commission was able to exert authority over the brokers only when Richard Whitney, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, had shamed the entire profession by being imprisoned in Sing Sing in 1938 for embezzling money from his partners, his friends, his clients, his clubs, his brother and even his wife.
In 2002, Arar was en route to Canada when he was detained by U.S. officials in New York and sent to Syria, where he was imprisoned for more than a year and endured severe beatings.
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