Sri Lankan opposition MP jailed
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A leading Sri Lankan opposition politician is given a prison sentence for defaming the supreme court.
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A gunman on Friday shot dead a top Sri Lankan judge who won fame in 2002 for sentencing shadowy Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to 200 years' jail in absentia.
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Zimbabwean police arrested an opposition legislator Thursday morning, before he was preparing to flee the country to avoid a one-year jail term for shoving a minister.
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: An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim militant to 12 years in jail on Thursday after finding him guilty of involvement in last year&#39;s JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta.
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A Indonesian man is jailed for eight years for his role in the October 2005 attacks on the island of Bali.
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The ex-leader of Kenya's outlawed Mungiki sect is jailed for having an illegal gun and drugs.
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Sentenced to three years The son of Labour MP and millionaire businessman Mohammed Sarwar has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of an Â£850,000 VAT scam involving imported mobile phones.â¦
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A ringleader of one of Europe's largest people-smuggling gangs was jailed at a south London court on Wednesday.
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A CLOSE political ally and business associate of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was jailed for nine years yesterday for colluding with the Mafia.
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The son of the Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar is jailed for three years for a major money laundering scam.
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The younger brother of a man once touted as a future leader of India's main opposition Hindu nationalist party was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for his murder.
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A man is sentenced to three months in jail for failing to co-operate with the Bloody Sunday inquiry.
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Sri Lanka's government has invoked tough anti-terror laws targeting Tamil Tiger rebels but stopped short of banning them to deal with spiralling violence, a top official source said.
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A prominent opposition figure was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after being convicted of stealing computers supposedly owned by the U.S. Embassy, a charge Washington labeled spurious and human rights groups called politically motivated.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- A court sentenced 35 opposition politicians and activists to life in prison yesterday and denied them the right to vote or run for public office after they were charged with inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government.
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An Indian court sentenced a former cabinet minister to life behind bars for conspiracy in the abduction and murder of an aide, reports said.
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A prominent ethnic Tamil opposition MP was shot dead during a New Year service at a Hindu temple in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, the third assassination of a minority legislator in two years.