VOA标准英语2010年-Pakistani Court Finds 5 Americans Guil
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(六)月
Detained American Muslims look to media as they arrive to appear in an anti terrorist court in Sargodha, Pakistan [file photo]
A Pakistani court has sentenced five Americans to 10 years each in prison after finding them guilty of terror offenses 1.
Pakistani officials say five Americans, all Muslims in their early 20s, are guilty of criminal conspiracy 2 to do acts of terrorism and raising funds for criminal activity.
Defense 3 lawyer Tariq Asad spoke 4 to VOA shortly after the verdict was announced. He says the court acquitted 5 the men of the more serious charges of planning war against Pakistan, directing others to launch attacks and attempting to cross the Afghan border illegally.
Asad says his legal team plans to file an appeal within the week and is prepared to take it all the way to the Pakistani Supreme 6 Court.
"The charges have not been proved at the level of this anti-terrorism court," Asad said. "At the high court level, we believe that they will be acquitted. And if of course they are not acquitted, we will go up the highest level of the appeals court."
Two of the Americans are of Pakistani descent. The others are of Egyptian, Eritrean and Yemeni origin.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad tells VOA they respect the Pakistani judicial 7 process.
Police detained the men in the country's Punjab province last December after their families in the Washington D.C. area reported them missing.
Pakistani authorities said they found e-mails and other evidence that showed the five Americans had contacted militants 8 and were intent on committing a crime.
The Americans claim they are innocent and say they only wanted to do humanitarian 9 work in Afghanistan. The men also said they were tortured by U.S. and Pakistan authorities while in jail – an allegation officials with both countries deny.
Prosecutors 10 say they also will appeal for a longer sentence. They had been asking for life in prison.
International relations expert Ishtiaq Ahmad says with the frequency of global travel and the ease of communication on the Internet, it has never been easier for aspiring 11 terrorists to have a long reach.
"Everything is linked now, you see, from terrorist financing to people physically 12 traveling from one region, crossing thousands of miles and then coming and committing terrorism," said Ahmad.
Ahmad says it is that reason that countries need to coordinate 13 their anti-terror efforts and laws. But he says that does not necessarily mean suspects have to be extradited to their home countries.
"I think [the] law must take its due course, wherever these people are captured and whatever their origins are," he added.
Earlier this week, a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty to a failed attempt to ignite a car bomb in New York City's Times Square last month.
U.S. authorities say the defendant 14, Faisal Shahzad, received explosives training from militants in Pakistan.
- It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses. 因这类小毛病责备那孩子是你的不对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Thus, Congress cannot remove an executive official except for impeachable offenses. 因此，除非有可弹劾的行为，否则国会不能罢免行政官员。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
- The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
- He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
- Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
- Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
- He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句
- He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
- Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
- You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
- Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。