Zimbabwe Sentences 68 Accused Mercenaries to Prison
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Simon Mann, the British soldier-of-fortune accused of masterminding a botched coup last March against Equatorial Guinea&#39;s ruler, was sentenced to seven years in prison
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Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander and 11 other men were convicted and sentenced Wednesday in the assassination of Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
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Iraq said it executed 27 "terrorists"   in Baghdad on Wednesday after they were convicted of murder and   rape.
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HARARE : A court in Zimbabwe found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms to stage a putsch in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but acquitted 66 other defendants of involvement in the alleged coup.
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Three guards are sentenced to death for attacking writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o and raping his wife by a Kenyan court.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - 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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Eight officials, including a former army chief, are sentenced for abuses during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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LIBREVILLE, 19 November (IRIN) - Verdicts in the trial of a group of suspected mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea will be handed down on 26 November, with two of the suspects facing the death penalty
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A Belgian court sentenced a former  Rwandan army major to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the  murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of  Rwandan civilians at the start of the 1994 genocide.
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A French court sentences six aid workers to eight years in prison for trying to kidnap 103 children from Chad last year.
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Two South African men accused of plotting to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea say they have been stripped, beaten and threatened with electrical shocks during six months detention in Zimbabwe.
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Sixty-eight suspected mercenaries including former British soldier Simon Mann begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe on various convictions related to an alleged plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Tribunal finds militia leaders guilty of mutilation, rape and the use of child soldiers.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s government has condemned the acquittal of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on charges of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, saying a guilty man had been allowed to walk free.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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A Zimbabwe court has jailed British former special services officer Simon Mann for a total of seven years for trying to buy dangerous weapons in a case linked to an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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Roy Bennett, one of three white lawmakers in Zimbabwe&#39;s Parliament, has been taken to prison to serve a year with hard labor. He was sentenced by a Parliament dominated by the ruling Zanu PF party.