Afghan court sentences killer of journalists to death
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A court in Afghan capital sentenced to death a killer of four journalists Saturday, a spokesman of Afghan Supreme Court said. &quot;The verdict was issued after the killer, Riza Khan
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A court has convicted seven men in the 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov &#151; one of more than a dozen killed during President Vladimir Putin's years in power.
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MOSCOW -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences yesterday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said two German journalists have been killed by gunmen in northern Afghanistan.
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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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Two German journalists working for the country's national broadcaster and traveling on their own through northern Afghanistan were killed on Saturday by gunmen, the Afghan government said.
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RAWALPINDI, (NNI): Field General Marshal Court has convicted two soldiers, awarding death sentence to one and 10-year imprisonment to another for involvement in the last year assassination attempt on President General Pervez Musharraf, army spokesman said
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A former CIA contract employee was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison for beating an Afghan detainee who later died.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday in a Kabul court after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.    The three-judge panel sentenced accused ringleader Jonathan Idema, a former soldier with a past fraud conviction, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, to 10 years in jail...
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Former Indian cabinet minister Shibu Soren is given a life term for murdering his aide.
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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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Gunmen shoot dead a woman who ran a radio station in Afghanistan, days after a female newsreader was killed.
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A Jordanian court sentences a failed Iraqi suicide bomber to death for her role in attacks on hotels in Amman.
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A U.S. military court found a 1st Cavalry Division soldier guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Saturday in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi translator and sentenced him to three years in prison, reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge.
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Two Syrians have been sentenced to death and another two to life in prison for their part in an April attack and gunbattle that killed four people in Damascus, one of their lawyers said on Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 -- An Afghan man accused of killing three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague in 2001 was found guilty on Saturday and sentenced to death. He had said that his gang was acting on the orders of a top Taliban commander.
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An Uzbek court has sentenced journalist to six years in jail for extortion, human rights groups said on Friday, condemning the trial as an attempt to silence free speech.