Convictions in China slave trial
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One man is sentenced to death and 28 jailed for involvement in a slave labour scandal in northern China.
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Chinese police have detained 168 people accused of involvement in slavery that trapped victims in scorching brick kilns, state media said on Monday, as outrage over official complicity rippled through the usually tame press.
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A Dutch appeals court was set to hand down its verdict in the case of seven Chinese citizens accused of running a human trafficking ring which transported 58 illegal immigrants to their death in June 2000.
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Defendants convicted in copyright infringement cases in Hong Kong and Japan were sentenced this week, resulting in jail time and a fine, respectively.
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Chinese courts on Friday ruled against a blind activist and a researcher for The New York Times in two cases that have attracted international attention as examples of government retribution against dissent.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death  three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in  the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court  Judge said on Friday.
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SYDNEY -- Six men have been convicted on charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island, home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
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A Beijing appeals court upheld a fraud conviction against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times.
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A wealthy New York couple were found guilty on Monday of forced labor charges after being accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in a dramatic verdict that resulted in the wife fainting.
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A Dutch court upholds jail terms for seven Chinese who trafficked illegal immigrants into Europe.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes yesterday by a UN-backed court -- the first verdicts from the country's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
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The Chinese state pledges to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved children and adults to work in brick kilns.
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A Chinese researcher for the New York  Times who was sentenced to three years jail for fraud will  contest the conviction after having beat a separate charge of  illegally leaking state secrets, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Piracy trials in Hong Kong and japan have led, respectively, to jail time and fines for two men convicted of copyright infringement.
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A woman is found guilty of assault and false imprisonment after she made her sister-in-law work naked as a domestic slave.
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Five people, three of them ethnic Chinese, appeared in court charged in connection with the drowning deaths of at least 21 Chinese migrant workers in northwest England, last February.