Afghan journalist sentenced to death
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An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan judges sentenced a man to death yesterday in the slaying of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague, who were pulled from their cars, robbed, and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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A Philippine court sentenced three men to life in prison on Friday for killing a newspaper columnist, a rare conviction in one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.
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A spokesman for the Afghan Taleban says the group has killed one of 23 South Korean hostages it is holding.
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An Afghan court sentences to death three men for killing 11 Chinese road workers in Kunduz in June.
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Three ex-Bangladesh soldiers are sentenced to death for killing four aides of former President Rahman in 1975.
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A human rights activist and journalist has died in prison in Turkmenistan, according to a rights group whose director blamed the government Thursday for what he said appeared to have been her violent death.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three Americans -- led by a former Green Beret who boasted he had Pentagon support -- were found guilty yesterday of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison.
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Two German journalists are shot dead by unidentified attackers in northern Afghanistan, Afghan police say.
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An Uzbek court has sentenced journalist to six years in jail for extortion, human rights groups said on Friday, condemning the trial as an attempt to silence free speech.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday in a Kabul court after a trial denounced by the defense as violating basic standards of fairness.    The three-judge panel sentenced accused ringleader Jonathan Idema, a former soldier with a past fraud conviction, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, to 10 years in jail...
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Iraq's High Court sentences the former vice-president to death for his role in the killings of 148 Shia villagers.
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A PAKISTANI military court has sentenced one soldier to death and another to 10 years hard labour in jail for involvement in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf last year.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 7 -- Two German journalists who had pitched a tent on the side of a road outside a northern Afghan village were killed by gunmen early Saturday.
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KABUL: Five Afghan prison guards and police and four prisoners were killed in a jailbreak attempt by Al Qaeda inmates on Friday, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
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Former Indian cabinet minister Shibu Soren is given a life term for murdering his aide.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 -- An Afghan man accused of killing three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague in 2001 was found guilty on Saturday and sentenced to death. He had said that his gang was acting on the orders of a top Taliban commander.