Race abuse conviction 'landmark'
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An anti-racism body praises the conviction of a man for racial abuse despite the victim not coming forward.
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One of several white people charged in the suspected kidnapping, torture and sexual assault of a black woman has been indicted on a hate crime count, and two others have entered guilty pleas in the case.
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A rally in Jena, La., over the prosecution of six black high school students is attracting national attention.
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A man who served 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned was awarded &#36;1.4 million Wednesday, Maryland's largest award for a wrongful conviction.
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A key figure in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal has been sentenced to eight years in prison. US Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick had pleaded guilty to five charges of sexually and physically abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
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A soccer fan was fined a 1,000 pounds (US$1,880, euro1,430) and banned from soccer grounds for the maximum five years on Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to racially abusing Birmingham City striker Dwight ...
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SYDNEY -- Six men have been convicted on charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island, home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
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Ten people were convicted on Thursday over one of the biggest dog fights ever uncovered in Britain, prompting warnings from animal welfare experts that the illegal sport may be growing in popularity.
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The Crown Prosecution Service said the number of cases of race hate crimes referred to public prosecutors rose by 13 percent in a year-long period ending last March.
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An anonymous donor has posted a &#36;100,000 reward for information leading to murder charges in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era &#151; the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
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A state appeals court Friday refused to vacate the murder conviction of ex-Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry, who died while serving a life term for the deaths of four black girls in a 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
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Police face disciplinary action over handling of case of woman whose father and uncle have been convicted of her murder.
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A report commissioned following the Caia Park riots in Wrexham says racism is still a problem in the county.
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A far-right activist was convicted of incitement and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison Thursday for anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.
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A case before the European Court of Human Rights is being seen as a landmark that could force Poland to compensate Holocaust survivors and their descendants for their material losses.
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A woman who authorities said was sexually abused, beaten and stabbed while held captive for at least a week was repeatedly called a racial slur during the attacks, the victim's mother said.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Spc. Charles Graner Jr. was  convicted on Friday by a military jury of abusing Iraqi  prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in a scandal that badly  damaged America's reputation after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.