Less than three weeks later, he was sentenced to 68 years, including 12 of hard labour.
It is in the big hard Labour seats that UKIP has done well in the last 18 months.
Half are estimated to have died from the hard labour and hunger.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for California-based Current TV, were jailed for illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labour.
Two years later, he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison with hard labour.
But it could be even bigger if Asians enjoyed the full fruits of their hard labour, rather than subsidising Western consumers through undervalued currencies.
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Payments meant for workers injured in industrial accidents or worn out by hard labour now go to the stressed and depressed, and to 500, 000 under-35s.
After being sentenced to eight years' hard labour, the defendants were repatriated to France, where they were finally pardoned by Chad's president in March 2008.
In the mid-1980s, after four years of hard labour in prison for human-rights campaigning, his moral credit was high but his life was a shambles.
On Tuesday a magistrate sentenced the trio to six months in prison with hard labour, suspended for five years - which means they will not actually serve any time in jail.
The judge reportedly told the court that the charges of contacting a foreign country, passing on messages and encouraging attack against Syria, could have carried a life sentence with hard labour.
On the face of it, North Korea's decision to sentence a US citizen to 15 years' hard labour seems to be a direct challenge to Washington: another twist in the cycle of actions and rhetoric that have helped keep relations so tense over the past two months.
But at least, points out Miss Brett, if 18 becomes the legal minimum, then even allowing for the difficulty of telling a child's age in places where malnutrition may make him look younger than he is or hard labour make him older 13- and 14-year-olds are less likely to end up clutching Kalashnikovs.
And people on probation must seek work but can decline job offers, such as those requiring hard physical labour in the sweltering midsummer.
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Those who have successfully landed work for years doing hard manual labour, usually in sweatshops and Chinese restaurant kitchens, to pay off their debts.
Even France's conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is unwilling to damage social cohesion (and risk trouble in the streets) by pushing hard for labour-market, pension and welfare reforms.
It will also be tricky to find builders who can work well at such altitudes (few people can do hard manual labour where the air is so thin).
They're campaigning incredibly hard for Labour and I think that for Clare Short to, to call for a hung parliament, er, a hung parliament that may not be able to deliver the manifesto pledges that we've got to tackle poverty, inequality, improved schools and hospitals.
Firms are suffering because they no longer enjoy cheap, hard-working labour.
She has a cooey-cooey, love-you effect on hard-nosed Labour councillors.
Among drawings by less well known artists is an oil on paper by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau which captures the hard and heavy labour of workers in a paper mill.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions include one from Labour hard man Lord Campbell-Savours, about reviewing the arrangements for enforcement and monitoring of the ministerial code - watch out for a supplementary, perhaps directed at some of the ex-ministers who've served in the Coaltion for a short while, and then moved on.....
There are increasing reports that firms are finding it hard to recruit skilled labour, and pay settlements are creeping up.
It is hard to see New Labour forcing through an unpopular transport policy in London, if it is strongly opposed by a directly elected mayor.
They had expected a hard-hitting attack on Labour's financial profligacy, with at least some details of Tory spending plans and fiscal proposals.
This was followed by a hard-won commitment from Labour to PR for such a body, in time for the 1992 General Election.
Conditions were hard heavy manual labour, little or no time off and the duties clearly delineated, whether for blacking the grate or whiting the doorstep.
They say the labour trends are hard to square with other statistics, logging decidedly poor growth performances in key sectors such as construction and finance.
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