Ex-Argentine officer sentenced for abuse
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A former police officer was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses in connection with the 1978 disappearance of a married couple during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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An Argentine court on Tuesday sentenced former military junta member Cristino Nicolaides to 25 years in prison for conspiring to murder leftist opponents during the 1976-83 so-called dirty war.
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A Spanish court rules that a former Argentine navy officer can be tried for alleged human rights abuses.
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A US soldier at the centre of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal was yesterday sentenced to eight years for sexually and physically abusing detainees.
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A judge in Argentina has paved the way for trying two notorious figures from the former military government.
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The highest ranking US officer implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has been sentenced to eight years in prison for abusing inmates.
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A former US soldier tells a court martial that interrogators told police guards to abuse prisoners.
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A soldier who admitted fleeing from the Army rather than deploying to Iraq for a second time was sentenced Thursday to seven months in a military prison and given a bad conduct discharge.
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A former Argentine military officer has been sentenced to six months in a U.S. prison for visa fraud and is likely to be returned home to face war-crimes charges, immigration officials said on Monday.
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A former Protestant paramilitary and police informer in Northern Ireland was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the murder of Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane in 1989.
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U.S. Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick was  sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for sexually and  physically abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
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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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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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Spc. Armin Cruz received a sentence of eight months in prison, a demotion, and a bad conduct discharge form the Army for having tortured Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdat (Baghdad).
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Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Tens of thousands of   Argentines rallied on Wednesday for the safety of an elderly   man who vanished after his testimony of torture helped convict   a former police officer in a "Dirty War" trial.
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The highest ranking soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was sentenced to eight years in prison for abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib during a court martial Thursday in Baghdad.