Court sentences "Chemical Ali" to hang
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Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", was sentenced on Sunday to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
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The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl after luring her to a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh nearly four years ago.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court Judge said on Friday.
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An Indian court jailed a Bollywood  producer for nine years on Friday for supplying actor Sanjay  Dutt an illegal rifle he got from gangsters connected with  India&#39;s worst bombings in 1993.
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A militant convicted of role in the bomb attacks on Bali island and Jakarta was sentenced to a relatively lenient jail term of 10 years by the South Jakarta District Court here Tuesday.
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A Beirut court sentenced one Lebanese man to life in prison and another for 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on two trains in Germany in 2006, judicial sources said.
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Baghdad - Iraq&#39;s &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; will be the first of toppled Saddam Hussein&#39;s henchmen to stand trial. Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam&#39;s who earned his nickname over his alleged role in the gassing
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A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced one militant to death and 14 others to prison terms of three to 10 years on terror charges, according to local reports.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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A district court in Jodhpur in Rajasthan on Friday upheld the punishment of five years given to Bollywood actor Salman Khan by a lower court for shooting a chinkara deer in 1998, a lawyer said.
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An Egyptian court sentenced a police major to five years in prison and two policemen to one year for forcing a male detainee to wear women's underwear and parade up and down a busy street, a judicial source said Sunday.
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Three members of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein -- including the man known as "Chemical Ali" -- will be executed within 30 days, senior appellate Judge Munir Haddad said Tuesday.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam Hussein's cousin and once one of the most feared men in Iraq, for orchestrating the genocide of tens of thousands of ethnic Kurds.
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The Iraqi government is split over whether to enforce the death sentence on Chemical Ali and two others.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A government official in Baghdad says the man known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; will be among the first figures from Saddam Hussein&#39;s former regime to be brought to court next week, in advance of their trials.
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An Afghan court sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad.
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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi court changed the sentence yesterday for Saddam Hussein's former deputy from life imprisonment to death by hanging for his role in the killing of Shi'ites, ignoring pleas from the United Nations and human rights organizations.