The punishments principally affect people who discover themselves crucial of the "state," who've made decisions on their own authority or whose place is to be filled by different officers, now in favor.

Authorities in southern China have sentenced a pastor of an unofficial Protestant "house church" to two-and-a-half years in jail on spying expenses, his lawyer mentioned.

This report examines the relevant legal framework for attributing duty to Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad for the crime of forcibly displacing civilians from town of Homs.