Anti-apartheid activist pardoned
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A leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed for fraud is handed a presidential pardon.
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King Abdullah pardoned a woman sentenced to 200 lashes after pressing charges against the men who raped her, a Saudi newspaper said.
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PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa  - A South African   judge on Wednesday threw out corruption charges against former   Deputy President Jacob Zuma, boosting the popular politician's   bid to succeed President Thabo Mbeki.
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A former apartheid soldier-turned-mercenary avoided the death penalty at a sentencing here Friday, but still received a 34-year prison term for trying to overthrow the government of this oil-rich West African nation.
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An opposition leader was convicted Thursday of organizing an unauthorized rally against the disputed election of Belarus&#039; authoritarian president and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail, his lawyer said.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pardoned her ousted predecessor Thursday, a move that drew praise as an olive branch toward political reconciliation and scorn as an opportunistic maneuver that endorses corruption.
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Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Monday pardoned 30 opposition members accused of plotting against the state and ordered their immediate release.
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu cancelled a pardon of former miners' leader Miron Cozma who had led violent anti-government protests in the early 1990s after an outcry against the presidential decision, a spokeswoman said.
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By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and David Blair, Africa Correspondent. Simon Mann, an old Etonian and former SAS officer, stood expressionless in khaki prison fatigues yesterday as he was sentenced to seven years
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, a Saudi newspaper said on Monday.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, the official news agency said on Monday.
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Neil G. Volz, a congressional aide-turned-lobbyist, was sentenced yesterday to two years' probation in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, avoiding jail because of his critical role in helping prosecutors bring a case against former congressman Robert W. Ney.
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Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is cleared of trying to pervert the course of justice.
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Prosecutors said Thursday they have formally overturned the conviction of a Dutch communist who was executed after the Nazis accused him of torching the Reichstag parliament building in 1933.
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A far-right activist was convicted of incitement and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison Thursday for anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.
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Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned a rape victim who had been sentenced 200 lashes and six months in prison in a case that sparked international attention, a Saudi newspaper reported.