Ethiopian leaders face sentences
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A group of 38 Ethiopian opposition leaders found guilty of links to violent election protests is to be sentenced.
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The United States expressed surprise Monday by an Ethiopian prosecutor&#39;s push for the death penalty for 38 opposition figures convicted of plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - A court has sentenced three former rebels to death for killing dozens of people while rebel factions jockeyed for power more than a decade ago, a government spokesman said Thursday.
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Prosecutors in Ethiopia&#39;s high court requested the death penalty on Monday for 38 opposition figures convicted last month of planning a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
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A court on Monday sentenced the editor of an opposition newspaper and two other journalists to two years in jail for &quot;damaging the image of justice&quot;, in the latest case against Egypt&#39;s media.
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The Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen sat down this week with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to discuss rising tensions with Somalia's Islamic Courts, and the state of democracy inside the country.
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Ethiopia&#39;s high court on Monday sentenced 35 opposition leaders to life imprisonment for inciting rebellion, after the prosecution had asked for the death penalty.
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The body that controls much of Somalia reacts angrily to comments by Ethiopia that it is prepared for an attack.
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Dozens of oppositions members sentenced to heavy jail terms in a judgement that has provoked a wave of international criticism have filed requests for pardon, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Ethiopia freed 38 opposition members and activists on Friday, four days after they were given jail terms for trying to overthrow the government in a case they say was politically motivated.
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KIGALI, Rwanda, July 16 -- An Ethiopian judge handed life sentences  instead of the death penalty to 30 of the country's top political opposition leaders Monday in a trial  the prisoners have called a sham.
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Sources in the ruling Fatah movement said Thursday that Marwan Barghouti - the Fatah military leader currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail
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An Ethiopian court Monday convicted 39 opposition leaders and others in connection with election violence, concluding a trial that drew condemnation from human rights activists.
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A court in Equatorial Guinea has given sentences of up to 34 years to a group of South Africans and Armenians convicted of trying to overthrow the government.
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World leaders expressed their outrage Tuesday over death sentences handed down by a Libyan court against five Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with the HIV ...Comment
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Two Moroccan men have received jail sentences in connection with last year's Zotob worm outbreak, according to new reports.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted Tuesday of genocide in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.