35 Ethiopian politicians, activists get life in prison
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- A court sentenced 35 opposition politicians and activists to life in prison yesterday and denied them the right to vote or run for public office after they were charged with inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government.
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A court in Bangladesh sentences a former minister to five years jail for possessing alcohol, officials say.
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus.
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Prosecutors in Ethiopia&#39;s high court requested the death penalty on Monday for 38 opposition figures convicted last month of planning a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
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NAIROBI, July 20 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced Friday that 38 of his country's top opposition leaders were being released from prison after being convicted on sedition charges in a trial that critics labeled a sham and that sparked an international outcry.
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The former president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, was sentenced to life in prison today after he was found guilty of corruption.
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Libya&#39;s highest judicial body commuted to life in prison on Tuesday the sentences of six foreign medics who have been on death row for infecting children with the AIDS virus, an official said.
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A man convicted of leading an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea has been sentenced to 34 years in jail. South African Nick du Toit escaped the death penalty.
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The U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced the former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia, Milan Martic, to 35 years in jail for ordering atrocities committed while rebel Serbs set up a breakaway state in Croatia.
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Eight inmates are killed when hundreds of inmates try to break out of a jail in Nigeria, police say.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said yesterday .
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An Ethiopian court Monday convicted 39 opposition leaders and others in connection with election violence, concluding a trial that drew condemnation from human rights activists.
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Ethiopia has charged 55 opposition members with trying to launch a rebellion, a government prosecutor told AFP on Wednesday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 12 -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted of genocide Tuesday in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.
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At least nine political inmates have died in a secret Eritrean prison where they are routinely tortured using plastic whips, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.
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RAMALLAH, November 27 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - The decision taken by Fatah West Bank Secretary Marwan Barghuti, currently serving five life terms in Israeli jails, to opt out of the presidential race, gives an extra momentum to the chances of
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Prosecutors in Ethiopia are seeking to raise a life imprisonment sentence for former Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to the death penalty after a genocide conviction for crimes during his bloody 17-year rule.