Sentences with phrase «established penal»

Despite naming their discovery «New Holland» the Dutch did not settle here; that honour went to the British who established a penal colony, to which convicts were deported by ship, on 26 January 1788, where the city of Sydney now stands.

Ten days later, Gu was taken into custody and sent to a black jail, a detention facility which falls outside of the country's established penal system, China Aid reported.

According to China Aid, Zhang and Liu are being held for six months in a so - called «black jail,» one of several detention facilities outside the established penal system.

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I remember when American Indians in various penal systems began suing for the right to wear their hair long as an established religious observation and they won.

The pistol permit office is a county office established to administer the state pistol permit law in Oneida County as required by section 400 of the penal law.

In 1788, England sent its first shipload of prisoners to Australia, establishing the continent as a penal colony.

Port Arthur Port Arthur Historic Site was established in the 1830s as a penal settlement.

It is established authority that the privilege does not apply against the risk of incrimination under the penal law of another country (see Brannigan v Davison [1997] AC 547, [1996] 3 WLR 859).