Argentina dirty-war criminal gets life sentence
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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.
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A Belgian court sentenced a former  Rwandan army major to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the  murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of  Rwandan civilians at the start of the 1994 genocide.
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An Argentine former navy officer went on trial accused of genocide and serious human rights abuses under his country's dictatorship, including throwing prisoners into the ocean from helicopters.
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A German court on Thursday convicted a man of helping al-Qaida in Iraq and sentenced him to nearly six years in prison.
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A loyalist who confessed to murdering Pat Finucane is sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.
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Deposed President Joseph Estrada was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after a landmark six-year trial on charges that he took bribes and kickbacks in office.
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A former Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003 in Colombia.
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A New York court sentences a leading Colombian drugs trafficker to 30 years in prison.
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A Palestinian man who waved blood-stained hands at a cheering mob has been jailed for life for killing an Israeli soldier four years ago.
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War crimes prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for a former top Bosnian Serb politician charged with genocide for allegedly helping orchestrate atrocities during Bosnia's 1991-95 war.
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A US soldier was sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of shooting dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi civilian in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City, the US army said on December 11.
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The UN war crimes court for Rwanda has convicted a Roman Catholic priest, the first it has tried, of genocide and sentenced him to 15 years for his role in the 1994 mass killings.
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Two Aryan Brotherhood leaders and a third member of the infamous prison gang, who were found guilty in July of murder and other charges, were sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life terms.
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A Canadian who admitted plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.
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The highest-ranking soldier charged with abusing inmates in the Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced to eight years in prison at a court martial in Baghdad yesterday.
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A U.N. tribunal Tuesday convicted a former Rwandan military commander of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
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A Cuban army sergeant who shot and killed a soldier and an officer in an attempt to hijack a plane to the United States has been sentenced to life in prison, a rights group said on Wednesday.