Court acquits former Lithuanian president
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The Vilnius District Court has acquitted former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, the court's spokeswoman Lina Vysniauskene told Interfax following the judgement.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent   author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of   expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.
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A German court acquitted the suspected right-hand man of international guerrilla "Carlos the Jackal" Monday of charges that he took part in deadly bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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A German court acquitted the suspected  right-hand man of international guerrilla "Carlos the Jackal"  Monday of charges that he took part in deadly bomb attacks in  France more than 20 years ago.
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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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A federal court judge ruled Tuesday that a presidential pardon of a former junta leader was unconstitutional, the state news agency Telam said.
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A Chilean court strips former ruler Augusto Pinochet of his immunity over the murder of his predecessor as army chief.
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The former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, yesterday won back the right to lead his own defence at his trial for war crimes.
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PRETORIA -- A judge yesterday acquitted Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason charges in a Harare courtroom, surprising even the defendant, who expected a conviction orchestrated by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
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A court acquits ex-paramilitary leader Jodel Chamblain of murder in a trial criticised by human rights activists.
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A Tanzanian accused of conspiracy  in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam was  acquitted on Wednesday.
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A New York judge frees the ex-chairman of online gaming firm Sportingbet, arrested earlier in September.
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state security forces.
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A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted a writer of insulting the country's founder amid calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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An Ethiopian court convicted former dictator Haile Mengistu Mariam of genocide today.
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Romania's outgoing President Ion Iliescu has pardoned the jailed leader of coal miners who stormed Bucharest several times in the early 1990s and helped topple the country's first post-communist government.