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An Ethiopian judge finds 38 opposition leaders guilty of charges connected to protests over election fraud.
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Harare - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was found innocent on treason charges on Friday that his party maintained all along were a bid by the government to frame him.
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Burma's military rulers file criminal charges against 10 activists involved in last year's protests.
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A man is found guilty of stirring up race hate during a protest against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
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Two Aryan Brotherhood leaders and a third member of the infamous prison gang, who were found guilty in July of murder and other charges, were sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life terms.
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Three former leaders of an Islamic charity were convicted on federal tax and fraud charges in Boston yesterday for using tax exemptions to hide support for religious militants and alleged terrorists overseas.
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A Swiss court found a Turkish militant leader guilty Friday of denying the Armenian genocide, the first time Switzerland's anti-racism law has been applied to the World War I slaughter.
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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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NAIROBI, July 20 -- The Ethiopian government on Friday pardoned 38 of the country's top political opposition leaders, released them from prison and drove them in three minibuses to homes they had not seen in nearly two years.
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Three men who admitted violating South Africaâs anti-mercenary laws for their role in an failed coup in Equatorial Guinea were ordered to pay fines or go to prison today.
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Ethiopia on Friday freed 38  opposition members sentenced to jail this week for treason,  inciting violence and trying to overthrow the government, Prime  Minister Meles Zenawi said.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, June 20 -- Three former military leaders in Sierra Leone were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday by a U.N.-backed court, the first verdicts stemming from the country's 10-year civil war.
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A Harare court found opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai innocent of treason charges Friday, a major victory for a man who had claimed the case against him was a government bid to sabotage his political aspirations.
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Thirty Ethiopian opposition leaders sentenced to life in prison over election protests are pardoned.
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Three Irishmen acquitted of training Colombian Marxist guerrillas are found guilty on appeal.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted on treason charges Friday, a surprise end to a yearlong trial that his party had said was orchestrated by the government of President Robert Mugabe.    Hundreds of Tsvangirai's supporters danced for joy outside the courthouse when the verdict was announced...
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Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu  Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on  Tuesday after a 12-year trial of one of Africa's bloodiest  governments.