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Recent Examples of gulag
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
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Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Under a new decree, relatives of people who had defected during the last three years were to be imprisoned in Soviet-style gulags or banished without supplies to a wilderness in the country’s far north.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Several of the women and their family members – their loyalty now suspect – were sentenced to long prison terms in the gulags.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
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Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Under a new decree, relatives of people who had defected during the last three years were to be imprisoned in Soviet-style gulags or banished without supplies to a wilderness in the country’s far north.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Several of the women and their family members – their loyalty now suspect – were sentenced to long prison terms in the gulags.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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Another suspect, Gary Howard Oliva, who spent eight years in prison on child pornography charges, was first named as a person of interest in a 2002 episode of the CBS show 48 Hours Investigates.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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The judge in the case reduced that sentence to eight years in prison and a $15,100 fine — with three of those eight years to be served in home detention — with Kennedy also ordered to serve five years of probation and undergo random drug testing and mental health counseling.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
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From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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But there’s a war out there in Tulsa, whose lucrative drug trade is not being overseen by the usual cartel, but by a native tribe chief (Graham Greene) who runs the Indian Brotherhood from a state penitentiary.Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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Doing so can result in a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail.Nate Chute, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Smollett spent less than a week in jail after an Illinois appeals court granted an emergency motion by his attorneys to delay his sentence and grant him bail until their appeal is resolved, CNN previously reported.Megan Thomas, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
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The wife of the man suspected of killing Georgia college student Laken Riley reportedly pleaded with him for answers during a jailhouse call in May, a court has heard.Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
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Prosecutors have claimed that Allen confessed to the murders during a jailhouse call with his wife, the AP, CNN and Fox 59 reported.Liam Quinn, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
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After his conviction, Mr. Calley was removed from the stockade on Nixon’s orders and confined to his quarters at Fort Benning.Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
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In 1992, the former prison camp became a national historic site later run by the National Park Service.Emilie Ikeda, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Scarborough died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215, according to prison camp and other historical records.Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Authorities late Thursday recaptured a teen who left a youth lockup in Dermott earlier in the evening, a Friday news release from the Arkansas Department of Human Services states.Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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While working for the D.A. in 2018, he was temporarily banned from all county lockups when he was caught on camera dressing as a deputy and sneaking into Men’s Central Jail to deliver a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin and a cup of coffee to an inmate.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
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