Ex-East Timor governor acquitted
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The only person to begin serving his jail sentence for the 1999 violence in East Timor is cleared on appeal.
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NINGI, Nigeria  - A young Nigerian mother  sentenced to death by stoning for having sex outside marriage  was acquitted and discharged by an Islamic appeals court on  Thursday.
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Two British tourists accused over the hit-and-run killing of a Cypriot schoolboy last summer have been acquitted after a court in Cyprus ruled there was a lack of evidence.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The only Indonesian official to be punished for violence that killed up to 2,000 East Timorese in 1999 has been released from jail, following a court decision that overturned his conviction, officials said.
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A Dutch court has acquitted a marine of criminal negligence in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian last year.
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Exoneration of military officials charged in 1999 E. Timor massacre fuels argument.
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An Italian military court on Monday acquitted an 87-year-old former lieutenant in the German army of charges stemming from the 1944 World War II massacre of 48 civilians in a small town in Tuscany, Italian news agencies reported.
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Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted of treason yesterday in a stunning decision from a court system that routinely favors President Robert Mugabe&#39;s government.
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The son of a politician from India's ruling party is convicted of murder in a case which sparked outrage.
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A former Irish priest who disrupted the  Athens Olympics and the British Grand Prix was acquitted  Thursday of indecency with a seven-year-old girl.
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The owner of the bus that exploded and killed 23 people during the Hurricane Rita evacuation was acquitted Tuesday of one safety violation charge but was convicted on two lesser counts.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - A court in Zimbabwe Friday  acquitted most of 70 suspected mercenaries charged with weapons  offenses in a suspected plot to topple the government of  Equatorial Guinea, but found their leader, Simon Mann, guilty.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group blamed for killing some 3,000 people, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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The U.N.'s International Criminal  Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday acquitted former  Rwandan education minister Andre Rwamakuba of murder and  incitement charges related to the country's 1994 genocide.
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A court acquits ex-paramilitary leader Jodel Chamblain of murder in a trial criticised by human rights activists.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday acquitted most of 70 suspected mercenaries charged with weapons offences in an alleged plot to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea but found their leader, Simon Mann, guilty.
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A Tanzanian accused of involvement in the bombing attack against the US embassy in Dar es Salaam in 1998 was on Wednesday acquitted by Tanzanian High Court.