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 there should be legislation barring jail authorities from taking hard labour from old prisoners.

SC acquits blasphemy accused for want of proof

All four have been convicted of doping and robbing Mumtaz and were sentenced to seven years custody with hard labour for each charge and a Rs30,000 (Pound 350) fine for the robbery.

Scottish Pakistani convicted of murdering wife in Pakistan

The Cassation Court accepted on Wednesday the appeal of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, amending the verdict to five years imprisonment instead of five years of prison hard labour.

Cassation Court affirms 5 years prison for Alaa Abdel Fattah

A man by the name Evan Edwards was committed for murder on March 17, 1845, for only two weeks of hard labour.

Prison archives provide insight into 19th-century criminality; Bestiality, murder and the felonious milking of a cow - Wales is no stranger to villains. Cailtin O'Sullivan digs back through the archives of Carmarthen prison and found fascinating snapshots of life 200 years ago..

Yes, hard labour plus compulsory education involving moral principles.

Drug users deserve hard labour, not our sympathy

LAHORE -- Famous singer Rahat Multanikar has said that majority of singers do not carry out hard labour to learn singing properly, that is why, they could not earn big name.

Call for learning classical music

STEALING SWEETS - 7 DAYS HARD LABOUR PLUS 12 LASHES Little Edgar Kilminster aged just seven

When punishment really didn't fit the crime

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.

Volumes show how city's children were punished in 1800s

Such was the fate of 13-year-old errand boy Clement Doyle who was handed 14 days' hard labour for stealing clothes in 1873.

Hard times behind bars

The sickly 42-year-old was arrested in November 2012 and later sentenced to 15 years' hard labour.

North Korea releases two Americans held for more than two years

Kenneth Bae, arrested in November 2012 on charges of trying to overthrow the state, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in May.