hard labour

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hard labour

the penalty of compulsory physical labour imposed in addition to a sentence of imprisonment: abolished in England in 1948.

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He said that the minimum support price of different crops must be protected so that the growers could reap the frit of their hard labour.

PTI govt was pushing country's economy into a blind alley by accepting all terms of IMF: Baloch

"This hard labour will be for the people of the country, you have to keep that in mind...the fruits of this hard labour will be consumed by the mass people of the country," she said.

PM reaffirms combat against corruption

YOUNG offender George Davey, aged 10, appears understandably glum after he's sentenced to a month's hard labour for stealing two rabbits.

No wonder he doesn't look a happy bunny

Later he'd argue that what he'd done was only the result of horseplay and got six months' imprisonment with hard labour for his trouble.

The 'devils' of Usk Jail; FEATURE Nathan Bevan matches the tragic faces and stories of the prisoners locked up in Usk Jail almost 150 years ago..

Six other defendantsreceived15 years imprisonment with hard labour, while another defendantreceived10 years imprisonment with hard labour.

14 defendants sentenced tolife imprisonment on terrorism charges

Later he'd argue that what he'd done was only the result of horse play and got six months imprisonment with hard labour for his trouble.

The tragic faces and stories of the prisoners locked up in Usk Jail almost 150 years ago; One bacon thief claimed she'd only picked up the rashers in order to defend herself from shop staff on the attack

On the other hand, the feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists had been exploiting the masses and reaping the fruit of their hard labour.

Worker's esteem must for progress : Siraj

He complained that his client had become old, but the jail authorities were taking hard labour from him.

SC acquits blasphemy accused for want of proof

GLASGOW: A manhas been sentenced to life in prison with seven years' hard labour after being found guilty of drugging, robbing and murdering his wife during a holiday to Pakistan reported The Herald.Mumtaz Sattar, 38, a mother-of-two, was killed by husband Abdul Sattar after they arrived at Lahore Airport on Saturday September 21, 2013.Sattar had claimed that he and his wife were doped, robbed and thrown out of a taxi.

Scottish Pakistani convicted of murdering wife in Pakistan

What these inadequate nohopers deserve is plenty of cold turkey in jail with hard labour, the one thing of which they are truly terrified.

Drug users deserve hard labour, not our sympathy

North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labour on Friday for subversion, China's Xinhua news agency reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state.

North Korea sentences Korean American to 10 years hard labour -- Xinhua

Stealing six rhubarb tarts in 1864 left Thomas Barry serving 14 days' hard labour and spending four years at reform school.