Christian in Pakistan sentenced to death
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A Christian was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammed, and a human rights activist Friday urged Pakistan's president to spare his life.
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A military court in Pakistan has sentenced to death a soldier it found was involved in an assassination attempt on Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf.
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PALU, Indonesia -- Three Christian militants were executed by firing squad early today for leading attacks on Muslims six years ago that left 70 people dead, a police official and local media said.
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen A US-held Saudi suspected of links to Osama bin Laden and a Yemeni militant were sentenced to death yesterday for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
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Three militants are sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting to kill Pakistani President Musharraf in 2002.
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A Muslim inmate says prisoners around the country are regularly mistreated by their jailers because of religious faith. The Supreme Court is considering his case Monday.
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A Yemeni court sentenced two Yemeni al Qaeda militants to death on Wednesday and jailed four others for the 2000 bombing of the US destroyer Cole which killed 17 sailors.
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An Iranian man is sentenced to death for his role in the serial killings of 17 children and three adults.
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A church elder was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for abusing an 8-year-old autistic boy who died in what prosecutors called an exorcism at a storefront church.
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Khalid Kelly, a Mulsim convert, has caused outrage by declaring that Ken Bigley, the British engineer held hostage in Iraq and under threat of being beheaded by his captors, deserved to die.
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Pakistan's legislature unanimously condemned Pope Benedict XVI. Lebanon's top Shiite cleric demanded an apology.
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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, spoke of how he turned to Islam for solace as his situation worsened in prison, in an interview published in The Times.
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An Islamic appeal court in Nigeria today overturned a sentence of death by stoning handed down to a 29-year-old pregnant woman for having sex out of wedlock.
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The younger brother of a man once touted as a future leader of India's main opposition Hindu nationalist party was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for his murder.
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An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  - A military court has convicted two soldiers, sentencing one to death and the other to 10 years in prison, for involvement in an assassination attempt last year against Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an army spokesman said Friday.
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Published: 27/11/2006 - 08:16:22 AM Send to a friend Mirza Tahir Hussain A Briton who spent 18 years in a Pakistani prison facing the possibility of execution today spoke of the dramatic events which landed him ...Comment