Example sentences of "who had be imprisoned [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | José Primo Esono , an activist in the illegal opposition group the Progress party ( Partido del Progreso ) , who had been imprisoned for his part in a coup plot against the regime in 1988 [ see p. 36200 ] , was released in February 1990 . |
| 2 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 3 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 4 | The agreement paved the way for the opening of talks on Jan. 11 , 1993 , and was followed by a goodwill gesture on Dec. 24 in which the armed forces released from military detention three generals and 40 other officers who had been imprisoned for involvement in coup attempts . |
| 5 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |
| 6 | In 1926 Fenner Brockway , who had been imprisoned during the First World War , wrote in a newspaper article : ‘ The object of penal reformers should not be to reform the prison system but to abolish it ’ ( Priestley 1988 : 175 ) . |
| 7 | Kuwait also protested about Iraq 's failure to release Kuwaitis and members of other nationalities who had been imprisoned since the Gulf crisis , or to allow Red Cross representatives to visit prisoners . |
| 8 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 9 | The appeal to William was signed by only one bishop , Compton of London , and was not supported by the seven who had been imprisoned in the Tower . |
| 10 | Mortimer was a Marcher lord and a Contrariant who had been imprisoned in the Tower and threatened with death ; he escaped to Paris in 1323 where he became the centre of a group of exiles and fugitives . |
| 11 | Willys , who had been imprisoned in 1654 and 1655 had in fact reached an understanding with John Thurloe [ q.v . ] , |
| 12 | A dispute over the conflicting constitutional rights of press freedom ( enshrined within the First Amendment ) and the right of a defendant to a fair trial ( the Sixth Amendment ) arose from an attempt by Cable News Network ( CNN ) to broadcast tapes which it had obtained of telephone calls made by the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega , who had been imprisoned in the USA since January 1990 awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges . |
| 13 | The remains of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty , the Roman Catholic Primate who had been imprisoned in 1949-56 and exiled in 1971 , were returned to Hungary from Mariazell in Austria and reinterred on May 4 at Esztergom , 16 years after his death . |
| 14 | Roger Cooper , who had been imprisoned in Iran since 1985 , was released in April 1991 [ see p. 38169 ] . |
| 15 | Amongst those arrested was Kim Keun Tae , an internationally recognized dissident who had been imprisoned from 1985 to 1988 , who was detained on May 13 , accused of organizing the May 9 protests . |