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impunity used in a sentence
1.064 documents for impunity used in a sentence
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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... for alleged perpetrators have successfully used technicalities to stall criminal proceedings; in o...
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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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[...] 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.
...From there, the group used to go out at night accompanied by a military offic... 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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... began serving concurrent 3-year sentences for convictions of felony stealing and burglary, d...That his parole revocation could be used to his detriment in a future parole proceeding is ... and district judges will repeat with impunity the mootness-producing abuse that he alleges occur...
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... Up to this day, the depopulation of areas is used as a deliberate strategy by the armed groups to st... 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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...", or in the alternative that kidnapping is used to finance and facilitate terrorism, thereby escal...(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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... null, and their lives can be taken with impunity. Agamben uses the term coined in ancient Rome, hom...The Romans used the term homo sacer to refer to somebody who could... from mere adjudication over the death sentence to control over life itself. The application of sc...
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... the procedural and substantive standards used to impose detention to prevent acts of terrorism, ... though he had not yet begun to serve his sentence). There are exceptions, of course. Title I of the ... the political branches from acting with impunity. Can it possibly be that the Court trusts the poli...
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... rights and addressing violence and impunity. We are also intensifying consultations with key ..., same old political arguments that were used against the Central America Free Trade Agreement -... in my testimony in a very short sentence, but I think it makes the point, one of the reason...
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... intrastate waters "[w]hich are or would be used as habitat" by migratory birds. 51 Fed. Reg. 41217..."adjacent"-quite the contrary, the quoted sentence uses "adjacent" and "adjoining" interchangeably ,...-can be filled in by developers with impunity, as long as the wetlands lack a surface connection...
