Anti-apartheid activist pardoned
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A leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed for fraud is handed a presidential pardon.
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LIBREVILLE, 26 November (IRIN) - A South African mercenary was found guilty Friday of leading a failed coup against the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea and sentenced to 34 years in jail, police and court sources said.
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An Ethiopian court found exiled former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday, ending a 12-year trial.
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Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday pardoned two Islamist lawmakers who had been convicted of stirring sectarian strife for their praise of the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Ethiopia has pardoned 38 opposition politicians and activists sentenced to various prison terms, including life, for inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.
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PRETORIA -- A judge yesterday acquitted Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason charges in a Harare courtroom, surprising even the defendant, who expected a conviction orchestrated by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.
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King Abdullah pardoned a woman sentenced to 200 lashes after pressing charges against the men who raped her, a Saudi newspaper said.
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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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JOHANNESBURG -- South African authorities yesterday abruptly dropped criminal charges against a Pretoria man charged last week with possessing components for the construction of nuclear weapons. The move was part of a deal in which Johan Andries Muller Meyer, 53, will cooperate with prosecutors to pursue other targets of the investigation, said a source familiar with the probe. Police arrested ...
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The most senior Russian army officer to have been convicted of war crimes in Chechnya was put forward for a presidential pardon yesterday, less than 18 months after he was found guilty of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen woman.
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PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa  - A South African   judge threw out corruption charges against former Deputy   President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday, moving the popular   politician and his left-wing allies one step closer to the   presidency.
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Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.
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Neil G. Volz, a congressional aide-turned-lobbyist, was sentenced yesterday to two years' probation in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, avoiding jail because of his critical role in helping prosecutors bring a case against former congressman Robert W. Ney.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape, whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, a Saudi newspaper said on Monday.
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu cancelled a pardon of former miners' leader Miron Cozma who had led violent anti-government protests in the early 1990s after an outcry against the presidential decision, a spokeswoman said.
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Bahrain&#39;s King Hamad has pardoned an activist sentenced to one year in jail for inciting hatred against the government, the BBC reported Sunday.