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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An Indian court has sentenced the son of an influential politician to life behind bars for the murder of a young model, a crime he could have got away with had there not been a public outcry.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s Parliament has sentenced to a year in jail one of its three white members for knocking down a government minister, the BBC reported Friday.
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East Timor's former interior minister is jailed for more than seven years for fuelling last year's unrest.
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One of the men who led one of the largest people-smuggling rings Scotland Yard has uncovered is jailed.
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The brother of an alleged militant leader is sentenced to four years jail for helping to fund a Jakarta bomb attack.
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A former aide to Rep. Lloyd Doggett was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday to stealing $168,000 from the congressman's campaign.
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A third alleged member of Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger separatist rebels was arrested in Australia Tuesday and charged with supporting a terrorist organisation, police said.
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A top opposition politician in ex-Soviet  Belarus was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in  what he denounced as an attempt to block his drive to make the  ex-Soviet state more democratic.
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A senior Bangladeshi politician is detained in prison for a further 30 days following his arrest last month.
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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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A Cambodian court sentenced ex-Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh to 18 months in jail in absentia on Tuesday for selling his former party's headquarters.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was taken hostage by a TV station after he complained it had failed to cover one of his speeches. By John Plunkett
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Four men have been jailed in Hong Kong for last year's attack on pro-democracy lawmaker Albert Ho.
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Morgan Tsvangirai was jailed and beaten for his role in a banned anti-government meeting.
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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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Two men convicted of membership in the illegal paramilitary Irish Republican Army, one of them a prominent Sinn Fein party member, were given four-year jail sentences.