11.   He said the offenders were sentenced secretly by military courts, but that the military censor barred publication of such cases until recently.

12.   In Switzerland, child sexual abuse offenders are sentenced to a maximum of seven years, unless violence was used to commit the offence.

13.   Offenders can be sentenced to a maximum seven years in jail, but no one yet has been convicted under the provision, Agnivesh said.

14.   Some offenders have been sentenced to death.

15.   The legislation would permit judges to sentence nonviolent offenders facing short prison terms to house arrest or a mandatory drug treatment.

16.   Chinese law allows police to sentence political offenders to reeducation through labor for up to three years without the benefit of a trial or defence.

17.   Drug trafficking and opium growing is illegal in China, where offenders may be sentenced to death.