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In the Feb. 20 critique of the BMW 750 LI in the auto section, the last sentence was, "You get what you pay for, so if you can afford it - get it.
Yes, if you can afford the $110,000 price tag and the $1,000 gas- guzzler tax, by all means buy this car and pollute the planet with impunity.
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PARIS - John Galliano's drunken anti-Semitic ravings cost him his job at Paris luxury house Christian Dior and gave him a criminal record but didn't land him in jail, a Paris court ruled Thursday.
The court found Galliano guilty on two counts of "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" - charges that carry a maximum sentence of six months in prison and fines of up to (euro) 20,000.
... that there appears to be a culture of impunity in the entertainment world.". The Simon Wiesenthal...
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...(58) A state of impunity is considered to promote the violation of human ri... Laurence Iliff, Calderon Proposes Life Sentence for Police Involved in Kidnappings in Mexico, THE ...
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Fujimori is only the most famous of Peru's convicted human rights abusers. Since 2001, when an Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision nullified the country's 1995 amnesty law, opening up the possibility for criminal trials in human rights cases, there have been almost a dozen successful convictions, including eight with firm sentences and dozens of other cases in trial. [...] there now exists a series of state institutions dedicated primarily to investigating and prosecuting such cases.
...A milestone in the struggle against impunity in Peru, Fujimori's conviction represents the firs...
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... began serving concurrent 3-year sentences for convictions of felony stealing and burglary, d... and district judges will repeat with impunity the mootness-producing abuse that he alleges occur...
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More than 50 people from the communities of Chimaltenango came to witness the trial, as well as a dozen national and international human rights organizations, various local and international press outlets, and ambassadors from the United States, Chile, and Holland. Human rights groups like CALDH and the Mutual Support Group, which provided logistical support to the witnesses in El Jute, hope the first forced disappearance convictions will bolster the validity of the genocide cases and encourage more victims to demand justice.
... A TRIBUNAL IN CHImaltenango, Guatemala, sentenced former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj t...The legacy of impunity makes almost every assertion of truth to power a d...
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[Chaplin Christian Von Wernich] is one of the spokesmen from the Church that participated in the tortures and 'comforted' disappeared detainees," said Christina Valdez, whose husband was kidnapped and later disappeared in the provincial capital of La Plata. Witnesses have testified that Von Wernich carried out a special role inside a network of clandestine detention centers known as the "Camps Circuit" in the Buenos Aires suburbs. He is most notorious for his title as "spiritual aid" inside the Puesto Vasco concentration camp, one of the 375 used to disappear, torture, and murder 30,000 people.
On just the third day of the trial, a number of witnesses gave remarkable testimonies of Von Wernich's crimes in several clandestine detention centers. Torture survivor Hector Mariano Ballent te...
...Scilingo, who was sentenced to 645 years in prison by a Spanish court, reporte... must feel a similar sensation: a certain impunity because one has to sit and swallow down everything...
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... self-defence groups has been to grant impunity to most paramilitaries who agree to surrender thei... in 2005 to follow up on the 2004 sentence from the Constitutional Court, comprised by the re...
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[...] they behave like the old AUC blocs, often announcing their arrival with threatening messages, like the e-mail quoted above, as well as flyers and graffiti. [...] the Colombian government's "peace process" was not merely a failure, but pure farce.
... in fact serve to maintain paramilitary impunity and thereby ensure that dieir power remains intact... suspension of the execution of a sentence, a cessation of procedure, a resolution of preclus...
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...His health was so broken by his sentence of nine months at hard labor that he died shortly ... freed them to sell pirated editions with impunity, thus disseminating blasphemy far more widely than...