In India, a city court in Delhi has sentenced 19 lawyers to six months of rigorous imprisonment for not abiding by a high court directive to not go on strike.

On Friday, a magistrate pronounced the lawyers guilty and sentenced them to a maximum punishment of six months.

In 2005, the Delhi High Court charged the lawyers under an unlawful assembly law, for holding a massive strike over their relocation to a new district court.

The 19 lawyers are currently free on bail while awaiting an appeal.