U.S. charges son of ex-Liberian leader with torture
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was charged in the United States with two counts of torture and one count of using a firearm to carry out a violent crime, a U.S. law enforcement official said on Wednesday.
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A couple accused of subjecting five of their adopted children to torture that included beating them with hammers and pulling their toenails out with pliers agreed Monday to be returned to Florida to face charges.
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Authorities are investigating whether a suspect in the kidnapping of three U.N. workers was tortured before he died in police custody, an official said Sunday.
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An insider once close to Charles Taylor will testify that the toppled Liberian president had links to militias who rampaged through Sierra Leone, the chief prosecutor said Friday.
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Former Liberian president Charles Taylor appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since the start of his trial for atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's bloody 10-year civil war.
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Thursday to 11 months in prison for passport fraud, a day after being indicted on separate torture charges.
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Mark Thatcher, the son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been arrested in South Africa on suspicion of involvement in a mercenary plot against the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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The son of a man who became a national crusader for tougher sex-offender laws after his 9-year-old daughter was kidnapped, raped and killed has been accused of sexual conduct with a minor, authorities said.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an ex-race car driver whose business career has been dogged by accusations of questionable arms deals and shady ventures, was charged Wednesday with helping finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.    Thatcher, 51, was arrested at his Cape Town home and taken before Wynberg Magistrate's Court to be charged with violating the country's Foreign Military Assistance Act...
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KUT, Iraq  - U.S. troops detained the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders, at a checkpoint on the Iraqi-Iranian borders on Friday, Iraqi security force officials said.
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The government has charged Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, in an alleged coup plot here, and will try him in absentia, legal officials close to the case said Tuesday.
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Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was arrested and charged Wednesday with helping to finance a foiled coup attempt in oil rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Sir Mark Thatcher has been charged over an alleged coup to oust the president of Equatorial Guinea, prosecutors have confirmed. The son of Baroness Thatcher, the former Prime Minister, is accused of having
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The Red Cross has accused President George Bush&#39;s administration of overseeing the intentional physical and psychological torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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The government of Equatorial Guinea has asked South Africa to extradite Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is under house arrest for his alleged role in a coup plot against Equatorial Guinea.
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ACCUSED Australian Taliban fighter David Hicks was charged with war crimes by a US military tribunal today after meeting his father for the first time in five years.
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher&#39;s son, Mark, was arrested in South Africa early Wednesday in connection with the alleged plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.