Zambia court lets satirist stay
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Zambia's Supreme Court rejects an attempt to deport a British writer for allegedly insulting the president.
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Slashdot is covering the arrest of Keith Henson.  He made a joke on a newsgroup, now he's arrested for defying a fundamentalist religion with legions of zealous lawyers.
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AS doctors told General Augusto Pinochet to remain hospitalised for treatment of respiratory problems, a court today reinstated a judge seeking to try the former dictator on human rights charges.
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Lawyers filed an appeal Monday on behalf of a blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president.
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South Africa's health minister on  Sunday defended her AIDS policies after a blistering attack by  a top U.N. official, but newspapers said she had made the  country a laughing stock and demanded her resignation.
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A new southern Africa court orders Zimbabwe not to proceed with the seizure of a white farmer's land.
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The judge who indicted Chile's former dictator on rights charges says pleas of dementia will no longer stick.
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A immigration judge ruled on Friday that Sam Kambo, who helped overthrow the Sierra Leone government in 1992, may stay in the United States, according to a report on the Austin American-Statesman newspaper Web site.
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A military judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors in the court-martial of Pfc. Lynndie England may use a pair of statements she gave describing the posing of naked Iraqi prisoners as "joking around, having fun."
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A hHgh Court judge rules that Zambia must pay a substantial sum to a so-called "vulture fund".
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Zambian opposition hopes jumped on   Friday following the copper-rich country's tightly fought   presidential race as one government-owned newspaper forecast a   major victory for populist challenger Michael Sata.
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Zambia's presidential race tightened on Saturday as President Levy Mwanawasa scored big wins in rural areas, but his populist rival Michael Sata maintained his lead and warned of "ghastly consequences" if poll fraud was detected.
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Former Judge Donald D. Thompson didn&#039;t dispute that he kept a penis pump behind the bench in his courtroom, but he insisted it was a gag gift given to him by a longtime friend, and said he didn&#039;t use it.
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Rapper The Game appeared in a New York  court on Thursday, charged with impersonating a police officer  but a judge ruled that those charges would be dismissed in six  months if he stays out of trouble.
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A Nigerian court on Monday adjourned for a week the treason trial of Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who heads a separatist group seeking a larger share of the country's oil revenue, after his lawyer hinted at a way out.
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A South African doctor faces censure for citing Aids on a death certificate against family wishes.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is to be sworn in for a second term of office, after his disputed election victory.