Former Paraguay president jailed
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Former Paraguay President Luis Gonzalez Macchi is jailed for eight years for fraud and embezzlement.
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By Ignacio Badal SANTIAGO, Chile  - A Chilean judge on Mondayformally charged Augusto Pinochet with homicide and kidnappingin one of many pending cases related to human rights abusescommitted during his 17-year rule, and ordered house arrest forthe former dictator.
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The former White House aide, now facing 30 months in prison, was a victim of the quirks of federal sentencing guidelines
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A federal judge Thursday ordered former de facto president Reynaldo Bignone arrested in connection with human rights abuses stemming from Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorship, local media reported.
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A court on Monday jailed a same-sex couple for three years for perjury  -  prompting the defendants to ask the president for help.
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A former member of Spain's Basque separatist movement is jailed one day after the group ended a ceasefire.
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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.
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Joseph Estrada, outspoken former president of the Philippines and hero of countless movies against injustice and corruption, was remarkably restrained on Wednesday when he was sentenced to life imprisonment for plunder.
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A Colombian congressman and member of President Alvaro Uribe's coalition was sent to jail for six years on Wednesday for his links to illegal right-wing militias, the first lawmaker to fall in a spreading scandal.
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A former Uruguayan colonel, wanted in his own country and Argentina for alleged human rights abuses, is arrested in Brazil.
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A Paraguayan supermarket chain owner is jailed over a 2004 shop fire in which over 300 people died.
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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 Paraguayan supermarket chain owner is jailed over a 2004 shop fire in which over 350 people died.
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Retired General Augusto Pinochet has been charged with killing and kidnapping opponents during his 17-year military rule and briefly placed under house arrest on Monday.
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A former Rwandan army major was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the 1994 killings of 10 Belgian peacekeepers at the start of the Rwandan genocide.
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Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been placed under house arrest by a Chilean judge on human rights charges. Former Chilean dictator Gen.
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A court in Bangladesh sentences a former minister to five years jail for possessing alcohol, officials say.