11.   It has suspended all death sentences handed down by the military courts until it decides whether the courts are legal, after hearings this month.

12.   Some are being held as administrative detainees after prison sentences handed down by Israeli courts expired.

13.   The demonstrators said the sentences handed down last week against French rappers Didier Morville and Bruno Lopes of the group NTM violated their right to freedom of expression.

14.   The death sentence handed down by the appeals court still must be ratified by the Supreme court and approved by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

15.   The Supreme Court has suspended all death sentences handed down by the military courts pending a hearing to determine whether the tribunals are legal.

16.   They ask about family, property and the sentences handed down in absentia in Beirut courts.

17.   However, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ben Bradshaw has already stated that London will oppose any death sentences handed out to British nationals at Guantanamo.

18.   A military appeals court ratified Tuesday a life sentence handed down for Lori Berenson, a US citizen convicted of treason for assisting a Peruvian rebel group.

19.   The United States plans to consider the sentence handed to Muchtar Pakpahan when assessing labour conditions in Indonesia, embassy spokeswoman Pamela Smith said.

20.   The two appealed sentences handed down by the Naha District Court in March, saying their prison terms were too severe when compared with similar rape cases.