Bahrain Activist Convicted, Sent to Prison
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A Bahraini human rights activist was convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison on Sunday in a case linked to his criticism of the prime minister.
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A man is found guilty of stirring up race hate during a protest against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
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A Pakistani judge Monday sentenced a married couple to three years&#39; jail for lying after it emerged that the husband was a transsexual.
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Bahrain has yesterday desolved the &quot;Bahrain center for human rights&quot; just days after detaining the deputy chairman of the center Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja over his criticism of the prime minister in a development which was deplored by Arab human rights
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An ex-pilot is jailed for 20 years for the murder of Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib in 2004.
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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.
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A newspaper editor in Yemen gets a year in jail for reprinting Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Feb. 22 -- An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president, sending a chill through fellow Internet writers who fear a government crackdown.
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NAIROBI, June 11 -- An Ethiopian court found 38 prisoners guilty Monday of charges ranging from "outrage against the constitution" to aggravated high treason in a trial the prisoners called a sham, and which international human rights groups have roundly condemned.
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A court in Bangladesh sentences a former minister to five years jail for possessing alcohol, officials say.
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A former official of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in one of the largest fraud schemes to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a university professor to five years in jail for sowing dissent and sedition. Hard-line Islamist academic Said bin Zair was arrested in April on charges of condoning suicide
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Japanese financier and shareholder activist Yoshiaki Murakami was jailed for two years on Thursday after being found guilty of insider trading.
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Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday.
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A former asylum seeker who exploited immigrant workers is convicted of money laundering.
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A leading Sri Lankan opposition politician is given a prison sentence for defaming the supreme court.