French jail terms for Chad kidnap
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A French court sentences six aid workers to eight years in prison for trying to kidnap 103 children from Chad last year.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities charged nine French nationals on Tuesday with abduction and fraud after they were detained trying to fly 103 children to live with families in Europe, Chad's government said.
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France prepared a formal request on  Thursday asking Chad to send home six French aid workers  sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103  children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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Chad's president said Thursday he hopes his country's judicial system will quickly free journalists and an air crew detained in connection with a French charity that was trying to fly children it claimed were orphans from Darfur to Europe.
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A statement purportedly from the Islamic Army of Iraq ( news - web sites ) posted on an Islamist website gave France 48 hours to accept three new conditions for the release of Christian Chesnot and Georges ...
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Nine French citizens were arrested in Chad after a group tried to fly more than 100 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the crisis in neighboring Darfur, the French Foreign Ministry said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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The leader of a French aid group  accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a  court on Friday France's government had known from the start  about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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Chad's president says he is ready to pardon French aid workers jailed for abducting children from his country.
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A Dubai court jails two men for the kidnap and sexual assault of a French-Swiss teenager.
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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African children.
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Chadian authorities will charge  nine French nationals with abducting children and fraud, a  prosecutor said on Monday, after they tried to fly 103 African  children out of the country to live with European families.
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Six French aid workers convicted by a court in Chad of trying to kidnap 103 children arrived in France on Friday following a deal that will allow them to serve their eight-year sentences in a French prison.
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Chad's president said Thursday he was "ready to pardon" six French aid workers convicted in December of trying to kidnap more than 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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French charity workers sentenced to eight years' hard labour for trying to fly children out of Chad to France will be sent home today
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Six French charity workers convicted of child kidnapping in Chad will appear January 14 before a court outside Paris to have their sentences adjusted, a prosecutor said Saturday.
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PARIS, Dec. 28 -- Six French charity workers who were sentenced earlier this week in Chad to eight years of hard labor for attempting to kidnap 103 African children were released from prison Friday and flown to France, ostensibly to serve out their sentences at home.