Afghan journalist sentenced to death
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An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for distributing an article that allegedly violated Islam is actually being punished for reporting by his brother about abuses by northern warlords, a media group said Wednesday.
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A Moscow court jails a journalist for five years in connection with his reporting on the Chechnya conflict.
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A leading female Afghan journalist was shot dead overnight, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the second such killing in a week -- crimes that have raised alarm among media rights groups.
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An Afghan court sentenced a man to death Saturday for the 2001 killing of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan, but he will not intervene until the courts have their final say, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, DECEMBER 24: A military court had sentenced a soldier to death and sentenced another to 10 years in prison, for masterminding an assassination attempt on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf last year, an Army spokesman said today.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is sentenced.
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A journalist working for an opposition newspaper was stabbed to death in her home in the Belarusian capital Minsk, her family said Thursday.
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Three Americans have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty by an Afghan court on charges including torture, running a private prison and illegal detention.
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A Canadian U.N. official who advised the Afghan government on eradicating opium poppy crops was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for smuggling and drug possession.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 7 -- Two German journalists who had pitched a tent on the side of a road outside a northern Afghan village were killed by gunmen early Saturday.
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An Afghan court sentenced three Americans to between eight and 10 years in prison for illegally running a private jail and torturing suspects in a &quot;private war on terror&quot;.
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KABUL : An Afghan court sentenced a man to death for killing three foreign journalists and their Afghan colleague shortly after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime in 2001.
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Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners holed up in Kabul&#39;s Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.
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Amid international outrage over a student journalist sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam, the Afghan government Saturday said it was "fully aware of the gravity of the case."
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An Afghan court sentences to death three men for killing 11 Chinese road workers in Kunduz in June.
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Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said two German journalists have been killed by gunmen in northern Afghanistan.