They could be jailed for 14 years and disqualified from politics for 21 years.
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If any of the executives were found guilty, they could be jailed for up to seven years.
Korean prosecutors have demanded that the president's son be jailed for seven years for bribery and tax evasion.
Violators of the Code can be jailed for up to six months or fined a maximum of 300, 000 yen.
An ordinary citizen could be jailed for stealing public property worth considerably less.
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It is unimaginable, for example, that anyone in Indonesia could be jailed for possessing a fax machine, as recently happened in Myanmar.
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Rights activists have long urged Pakistan to reform the laws, under which a person can be jailed for life or sentenced to death.
Rights activists have long urged Pakistan to reform its blasphemy laws, under which a person can be jailed for life for desecrating the Koran.
Mr Khodorkovsky has been accused of multiple charges of fraud and tax evasion, and if found guilty could be jailed for up to 10 years.
If the judge grants it, Mr Yerofeev and Mr Samodurov will become the first people since the end of Communism to be jailed for artistic expression.
Without giving comment, the US Supreme Court announced it was allowing a lower court's ruling that the two journalists should be jailed for contempt of court to stand.
Moreover, barras bravas (hooligans), whose penchant for vandalism and violence has discouraged law-abiding fans from attending matches, can be jailed for up to ten years for using explosives.
If a person converts another by the use of force or by inducement or by any other fraudulent means , they can be jailed for up to two years, fined, or both.
She wanted to be a painter, wanted to show in her pieces the many challenges of Afghan women who can be jailed for falling in love, killed for running away, beaten for being wives.
As class B substances under Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, users of the two substances will face heavy fines and up to five years in prison, while suppliers could be jailed for up to 14 years.
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He called on the government to change the law so that people could be jailed "for fixing oil prices" and for any cash recovered in fines, if the companies are found guilty, to be returned to motorists.
FARC, in which kidnapped hostages would be exchanged for jailed guerrilla leaders.
There is no privately-owned news media left in Eritrea, the "North Korea" of Africa, and one can be jailed in Zimbabwe for insulting the president.
It took some 20 years for children who had been abused to be heard, and for their abusers to be jailed.
In August 2008, a 16-year-old boy - who could not be named for legal reasons - was jailed for four years at Glasgow Sheriff Court over his role in disturbance.
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Another law allowing adulterous wives to be jailed prescribes mere fines for errant husbands.
Mir Ali Jattak, a former minister of Balochistan province, is the seventh politician to be jailed in recent days for fraudulently claiming to hold a degree.
After the expulsion, other international media outlets were warned that any of their staff members in Baghdad who helped CNN cover the war would be jailed and charged with spying for the CIA, Jordan said.
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