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The UN-backed war crimes court for Sierra Leone sentences three rebel leaders to long prison terms.
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THE HAGUE, Jan 18 (IPS) - After a delay of six months, the Charles Taylor  case resumed at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Jan.  7. The former president of Liberia is charged with crimes against  humanity and war crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone  (1991-2001), including murder, rape, enslavement, acts of  terrorism and the recruitment of child soldiers.
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A US soldier has been sentenced to three years in prison, forfeiture of all pay and a dishonorable discharge after he pleaded guilty to the killing of a severely wounded Iraqi civilian, the US military said in a statement.
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Pair are first of 'Fairford five' convicted for trying to stop American bombers reaching Iraq.
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Ten accused Islamic militants were convicted Thursday and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 10 years for their roles in a millennium plot to blow up a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg on New Year's Eve 2000.
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ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 29 -- An Australian who became the first person convicted at a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II left prison Saturday, apologetic for "what he's supposed to have done and what people believe he's done," his father said.
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The united front presented by the seven defendants in the Pitcairn child sex abuse trial has finally started to crumble, after Dennis Christian yesterday offered the first guilty pleas to the court on the semi-tropical island.
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An Iraqi court has convicted 38 people of charges related to the insurgency, including kidnapping and murder, the U.S.-led coalition said. Their sentences ranged from six months to life.
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A court Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Army soldier to 14 1/2 years in prison for his participation in the killing of eight Sarajevo Serbs during the 1992-95 war.
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Ahmad Shlash, Ezzo Hussein al-Hussein sentenced to death for being involved in bomb attack, firefight in Damascus. DAMASCUS - Two of 22 defendants accused of involvement in a bomb attack and firefight in the
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Thirteen Congolese army soldiers and  four former militia fighters have been sentenced to life  imprisonment in separate war crimes convictions by local  military authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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A Colombian court has sentenced three IRA-linked men to up to 17 1/2 years in prison for training leftist rebels in terrorist tactics in a guerrilla stronghold in southern Colombia, according to court documents released Thursday.
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A well known Kenyan businessman has been imprisoned in the first conviction under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s promised anti-corruption drive.
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The Bosnian war crimes chamber  sentenced a Bosnian Serb former paramilitary on Friday to 12  years in prison for the persecution, detention and torture of  Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war.
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At least 68 suspected mercenaries, including Simon Mann, a former British soldier, and a number of South African nationals, begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe.
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SYDNEY Six men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for sexual attacks dating back 40 years on the isolated home of the Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said Friday.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A retired police   commissioner was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for   murder, torture and kidnappings during Argentina's "dirty war,"   in one of the first sentences since amnesty laws were scrapped   last year.