Appeal case against Ethiopia&#39;s ex-dictator opens
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An appeal case against a life sentence handed to Ethiopia&#39;s former dictator Mengistu Haile Marian opened here Tuesday with prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.
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A former aide to South Africa's ousted deputy president, Jacob Zuma, launched a new legal appeal on Monday seeking to overturn fraud and corruption convictions that have dimmed Zuma's political prospects.
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The 69-year-old founder of Peru&#39;s Maoist Shining Path terrorist movement, which paralyzed the country for more than two decades, faced a civilian court Friday for the first time since he was arrested more than 12 years ago.
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South Africa&#39;s high court will hear a challenge on September 21 to a subpoena demanding Mark Thatcher answer questions from Equatorial Guinea about a suspected coup plot in the oil-rich country, his lawyer says.
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U.N. prosecutors opened their war crimes case against three members of the Kosovo Liberation Army Monday, promising to call on witnesses to prove charges against the first ethnic Albanians to face the Hague ...
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South Africa&#39;s deputy president, Jacob Zuma, began a fight for his political life yesterday when he was repeatedly named in corruption charges against his friend and financial adviser, Schabir Shaik.
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U.N. prosecutors opened their war crimes case against three members of the Kosovo Liberation Army Monday, promising to call on witnesses to prove charges against the first ethnic Albanians to face the Hague tribunal for actions during the Kosovo war.
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The Indonesian government yesterday opened the retrial of an Indonesian cleric who is charged with leading an al-Qaida-linked group and inciting its members to carry out terrorist attacks against US interests.
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The official month-long campaign for Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban, has opened.
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Lawyers are trying to secure access to Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after authorities defied a judge&#39;s order to either bring him to court or to set him free on Tuesday.
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The United States expressed surprise Monday by an Ethiopian prosecutor&#39;s push for the death penalty for 38 opposition figures convicted of plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
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A South African court is due to begin hearing an appeal by the former financial advisor to ex-Deputy President Zuma.
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The UN calls for an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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Ethiopian prosecutors on Monday asked for the death penalty for 38 politicians and activists accused of inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government.
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a new trial of the accused leader of Southeast Asia&#39;s Islamic militant Jemaah Islamiah network. &quot;It has been submitted to the South Jakarta court today,&quot; Didik Istiyanta, South Jakarta state prosecutor, told Reuters on Friday.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.