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With an insidious intelligence service, routine imprisonment and torture of dissidents and iron-fist control of media and public speech, the Assads maintained a ferocious and violent control of the Syrian population.

Olsen: Is it ever frustrating for you that so many of the interviews and questions that you get are about your imprisonment, your exile?

The punishment for insurrection includes the death penalty or life imprisonment.

The charge is non-bailable and a conviction could mean a minimum of seven years in jail and fine or even life imprisonment.

However, the law in Vietnam states that if she can pay back 75% of what she took, her sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment.