jailed

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Dong Guangping, a 68-year-old former police officer, had been detained and jailed in China several times for his activism and some of his past attempts to flee the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

He was sent back to China, where he was jailed for 11 months, according to Front Line Defenders, a Dublin-based rights group.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

They were jailed for 45 days, and by the time they were released, Daraa had weekly demonstrations that soon spread to the rest of the country.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

"It's very worrying," said Seema Misra OBE, a sub-postmaster who was jailed when pregnant in 2010 after wrongly being accused of stealing £74,000 from her branch in Surrey.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

It was rare for a witch to be jailed; only killings on a mass scale and usage of dangerous Forbidden Curses ever warranted it.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega