Activist sentenced to four years
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An activist has been jailed for a record four years for his part in a campaign of intimidation against an animal testing firm.
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Under the plea agreement, one brother will be sentenced to four years in prison and the other will be sentenced to three years probation.
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The former White House aide was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail, plus a fine of $250,000.
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Two men convicted of membership in the illegal paramilitary Irish Republican Army, one of them a prominent Sinn Fein party member, were given four-year jail sentences.
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CAIRO - An Egyptian court sentenced four outspoken newspaper editors to one year in prison with labor yesterday for defaming President Hosni Mubarak and his politician son, drawing swift condemnation from human rights groups.
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A German court sentenced a man to a suspended four-month prison term and to community service for slapping Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the face.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - 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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Iran has imprisoned an Iranian American affiliated with George Soros' Open Society Institute, the foundation said on Wednesday, marking the fourth dual citizen to be detained in Iran in recent months.
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A Syrian criminal court on Monday convicted a political activist of insulting the regime and contacting "hostile parties," sentencing him 18 months in jail, a human rights group said.
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A court in Indonesia has sentenced the editor of a leading media group to a year in prison for libeling a controversial businessman.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Three animal rights   activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were   sentenced to between 48 and 72 months prison on Tuesday for a   campaign to drive out of business Huntingdon Life Sciences, a   company that tests pharmaceuticals and chemicals on animals.
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East Timor's former interior minister is jailed for more than seven years for fuelling last year's unrest.
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A childminder is jailed for three years after being found guilty of killing a four-month-old baby.
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A retired postman who burned or attempted to destroy 40,000 letters is jailed for four months.
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A man at the centre of a row about prison overcrowding is jailed for four years for child sex offences.
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An environmental advocate who arranged lobbyist Jack Abramoff's entree into the Interior Department was sentenced Friday to two months in a halfway house and four years probation.
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A 19-year-old homeless man faces four years in prison after being arrested for sawing off the arms of a bronze statue of Pele, the Brazilian football legend, to sell for scrap.