New sentence for Chile spy chief
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Chile's former secret police chief, already in jail, is sentenced to a further 15 years over the 1974 death of a student.
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A man convicted of participating in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt was sentenced Monday to more than 23 years in prison.
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A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China was given a 14-year prison sentence Wednesday in a trial that rights advocates denounced as part of a campaign of intimidation against scholars by Russia's resurgent KGB successor agency.
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A former police investigator was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in connection with the disappearance of six people during Argentina's so-called "Dirty War" against political dissent.
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A Chilean judge has ordered the house arrest of the country&#39;s former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, on human rights charges.
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Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism.
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A Chilean judge on Monday formally charged Augusto Pinochet with homicide and kidnapping in one of many pending cases related to human rights abuses committed during his 17-year rule, and ordered house arrest for the former dictator.
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Peru's ex-intelligence chief Montesinos gets a 20-year jail sentence for selling arms to Colombian guerrillas.
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Chile's government says it will build a  prison for officers convicted of human rights abuses in the Pinochet era.
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The latest twist in the CIA leak scandal has Vice President Dick Cheney saying he hopes his former chief of staff, now sentenced to 30 months in prison, will eventually get off.
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Chile&#39;s Supreme Court has ruled that the country&#39;s former military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, should be stripped of his immunity from prosecution.
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Chile's ex-military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, is put under house arrest after being ruled fit to stand trial.
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A court in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, on Wednesday sentenced Russian physicist Valentin Danilov to 14 years in prison for spying for China.
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Three months after the Supreme Court of Chile removed his immunity, Augusto Pinochet was formally charged by Judge Guzman and placed under house arrest on 13 December.
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One of the most notorious figures from Chile's former military regime, Osvaldo Romo, has died in prison.
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Chile&#39;s Supreme Court has ruled that the country&#39;s former military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, should be stripped of immunity from prosecution.
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Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was charged with involvement in a homicide and nine kidnappings in the 1970s that were part of a plot by Latin American military regimes to kill opponents.