Word: jails
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...RELEASED. 3,937 prisoners, including student leader MIN KO NAING, 42 (pictured after his release from Sittwe prison), and at least two dozen members of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy; from jails around the country; in Burma. Reasons for the mass release remain unclear; the move follows last month's purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt by the junta, and state media have reported that the prisoners had been "inappropriately" jailed by the former PM's intelligence apparatus. Min Ko Naing, a leader of 1988's student democracy protests, had been...
...fair and equal treatment," he said. As for Parmalat's own management, while many executives have acknowledged to magistrates that they played a role in the fraud, most point the finger at Tanzi as the mastermind. Tanzi, however, blames others, particularly Tonna. If found guilty, both men could face jail sentences of five years or more. While some of the Parmalat executives were jailed during the initial investigation, all have since been released pending trial. Ferraris is in trouble primarily because of that presentation he made to investors in Milan. Magistrates in that city have charged him with disseminating false...
...Kimberly Elise, is raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of 12, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. To Elise’s credit, she does as much as possible with such a weak script. On her time in jail: “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling my leg, just like I’m pulling yours.” This movie should be overnight Fed-Ex’ed to Lifetime, where they can show it over and over again...
...past, Beijing might have responded by cracking down and throwing a few people in jail for loan sharking. That hasn't happened for the simple reason that the gray-market provides an efficient means of capital allocation in ways the country's socialist-era financial system cannot. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, discovered this recently when it started monitoring gray-market capital flows in Zhejiang. Expecting to find shadow bankers charging exorbitant rates, they instead discovered that underground interest rates were only marginally higher than what banks offer and repayment terms were better. This steady source...
...raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of twelve, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. To Elise’s credit, she does as much as much as possible with such a weak script. On her time in jail: “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling my leg, just like I’m pulling yours.” This movie should not be released in theatres. It should be overnight Fed-Ex’d to Lifetime, where they can show...