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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A court in Bangladesh jails former minister Lutfozzaman Babar for 10 years for firearms offences.
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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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Security forces arrested former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on Monday, underlining the interim government's drive to root out graft under an emergency rule imposed eight months ago.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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A federal judge Friday sentenced Abdurahman Alamoudi to the maximum 23-year prison term for illegal dealings with Libya that included his involvement in a complex plot to kill the Saudi ruler.
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A leading Sri Lankan opposition politician is given a prison sentence for defaming the supreme court.
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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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A court in Palermo convicted Sicily's governor Friday of helping a Mafia boss and sentenced him to five years in prison.
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East Timor's former interior minister is jailed for more than seven years for fuelling last year's unrest.
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Another former Bangladeshi lawmaker has been arrested as part of the interim government's massive graft crackdown, bringing the number of political leaders detained to 23, an official said.
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An Indian court sentenced a former cabinet minister to life behind bars for conspiracy in the abduction and murder of an aide, reports said.
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An opposition leader was convicted Thursday of organizing an unauthorized rally against the disputed election of Belarus&#039; authoritarian president and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail, his lawyer said.
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An Indonesian court has sentenced a young Islamic militant to 15 years in jail for his role in last year's suicide bombings on the resort island of Bali.
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A PAKISTANI military court has sentenced one soldier to death and another to 10 years hard labour in jail for involvement in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf last year.
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IN AN order that could change political alignments in Pakistan, the Supreme Court has granted bail to Benazir Bhuttoâs husband Asif Zardari, in prison for nearly eight years now for a string of criminal and economic offences.
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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.