Ex-cult leader seeks release from parole
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Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, is seeking immediate release from parole supervision because he has advanced cancer and wants to die with dignity, his lawyers said Friday.
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Leftist protesters from the southern city of Oaxaca demanded Tuesday that the government release a jailed leader of the movement and threatened to return to the streets if he is not freed.
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BAGHDAD -- Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, in an audiotape released yesterday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a US prison.
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Former investment banker Frank Quattrone on Wednesday requested a court order that would allow him to remain free on bail while he appeals his obstruction of justice conviction.
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John Lennon's killer appeared before a parole board Tuesday in a third attempt at release from prison.
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One of the notorious Texas Seven, who escaped from prison and killed a police officer during more than a month on the run, has told court officials he wants to drop all appeals to speed up his execution.
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A Cuban militant accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner wants a federal judge to let him out of jail while the U.S. government continues searching for a country where it can deport him.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  Now that Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is in custody, people trapped in abusive situations within the isolated polygamous sect may have a chance to break free.
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Leslie Van Houten, the former Charles Manson follower convicted of taking part in a murderous rampage that terrorized Los Angeles 37 years ago, was denied parole Thursday for a 16th time.
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The wife of a Boston-based democracy activist jailed in China said on Thursday she plans to seek medical parole for her husband after seeing him for the first time since he was detained in 2002.
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Fugitive leader Warren Jeffs is arrested, but that doesn't necessarily mean the end of his sect
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Former investment banker Frank  Quattrone on Wednesday requested a court order that would allow  him to remain free on bail while he appeals his obstruction of  justice conviction.
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An MP has urged the government to seek the release of a Briton accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea. Simon Mann, a former SAS commander, has been sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwe court for illegally trying to buy weapons of war.
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The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.
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A murder-suicide by the son of a 60's cult leader has prompted former members to come forward with claims of abuse.
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The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.