Chechnya murderer pardoned
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A former Russian colonel who strangled a Chechen teenager is pardoned by a regional amnesty commission.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin faced a dilemma Monday over whether to pardon an army colonel who strangled a Chechen schoolgirl, risking upsetting allies in Chechnya on the one hand or his powerful military on the other.
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The former head of a district in Chechnya has been charged as an accomplice in organizing the execution-style murder of a Russian investigative journalist, his lawyer said Friday.
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.
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TWO Chechen women suspected of blowing up two Russian passenger planes last month were detained but freed -- and then went on to bribe their way aboard.
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Hundreds of Chechens have marched in the capital, Grozny, to protest against moves to pardon a Russian ex-colonel jailed for murdering a Chechen girl.
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A confessed serial killer due to be paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman 25 years ago.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced four men to prison terms of between seven and 14 years for the racially motivated killing of a Congolese student.
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MOSCOW, June 21 -- The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that a Chechen woman who had appealed to the court and was subsequently  slain in her home along with three members of her family was "extra-judicially executed by State agents," according to the judgment.
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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is pardoned by his successor after being convicted of corruption.
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A Russian Army officer jailed for the murder of a young Chechen woman withdrew his appeal for a presidential pardon Tuesday, according to Interfax, which quoted officials in the city where the officer was detained.
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A Russian colonel convicted of murdering  a Chechen woman has withdrawn his request for a pardon, sparing  President Vladimir Putin the uncomfortable choice of offending  either the volatile region or his military.
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Argentina's Supreme Court revokes a pardon granted to a former general accused of human rights abuses.
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A Russian serial murderer dubbed the "Chessboard Killer" was given the maximum sentence of life in prison Monday and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy for a string of at least 48 murders that terrorized Moscow for years.
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A Russian ex-Olympic champion avoids jail over his role in plotting to kill a regional governor.
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President Bush granted pardons yesterday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws, but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his vice president's former top aide, who was convicted in the case of the leaked identity of a CIA operative.