Bangladesh minister is sentenced
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The special anti-corruption court of Bangladesh hands down its first sentence to a former minister.
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The imam of a Georgia mosque who pleaded guilty to providing support to the militant group Hamas was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison.
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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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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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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was arrested at her home in the capital on Monday and sent to jail to face extortion charges, her party and court officials 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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Bangladesh's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina must remain in prison and said she would be prosecuted under special emergency laws for extorting more than $1 million.
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years in jail, overturning his conviction for sodomy in a shock ruling expected to win support for the new prime minister. freedom to urge the country&#39;s recently installed prime minister to drive harder on reform.
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A leading Sri Lankan opposition politician is given a prison sentence for defaming the supreme court.
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New corruption charges are announced against detained former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail for involvement in last year's bombing of a hotel, but acquitted him of helping plan the 2002 Bali attacks.
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A court in Bangladesh jails former minister Lutfozzaman Babar for 10 years for firearms offences.
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Security forces arrested former  Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on  Monday, a signal of the interim government&#39;s determination to  root out graft under the emergency rule imposed eight months  ago.
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The former president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, was sentenced to life in prison today after he was found guilty of corruption.
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The arrest of Bangladesh's most recent prime minister brought reactions of shock, praise and uncertainty from ordinary citizens on Tuesday, in a country struggling for political stability.
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AN Indonesian court has sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail after finding him guilty of involvement in last year&#39;s JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta.
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A Rwandan doctor and one-time possible presidential candidate has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, human rights groups said Wednesday.