purger

Adam purgea trois ans pour possession de drogues.
Adam spent 3 years in jail for drug possession.
Un section, se proclamant marxiste-léniniste, pris pratiquement le pouvoir sur toute l’organisation, et purgea ceux qui résistaient à leur tournant idéologique.
A section, proclaiming itself Marxist-Leninist, practically took over the whole organization and purged those who resisted this ideological turn.
Il purgea 9 années dans des conditions épouvantables, le plus souvent en cellule d’isolement, d’abord à la prison de Brandebourg, puis dans celles de Leipzig et de Dresde.
He served 9 years of this sentence in horrific conditions, most often in solitary confinement, first in Brandenburg prison, then in Leipzig and Dresden.
Jugé à huis clos, il fut condamné à une peine de dix-huit ans de prison, dont il purgea onze années en complet isolement.
He was tried in camera and sentenced to 18 years in prison, 11 of which were to be spent in solitary confinement.
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