Eight years in jail for French aid workers convicted in Chad
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A French court on Monday sentenced six charity workers to eight years in prison, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to abduct more than 100 children.
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Former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar is given an eight-year jail term for his role in the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik.
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A French court jailed Algerian Rachid Ramda for life on Friday for his role in financing a spate of bomb attacks on the Paris underground rail network that killed eight people and wounded 200 others in 1995.
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A Riga regional court sentenced Swedish citizen Martin Strandberg to eight years in prison on Oct.
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A Chadian court sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of forced labor Wednesday after finding them guilty of trying to kidnap 103 African children and bring them to Europe.
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A French court on Monday sentenced six charity workers to eight years in prison, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to abduct more than 100 children from the border with war-torn Darfur.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were being flown to France on Friday to serve their terms there, a Chadian justice ministry official said.
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Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years of forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from this African country will return to France, a Chadian official said Friday.
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CRETEIL, France  - Six French activists sentenced in Chad to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap dozens of children had their sentences converted into French jail terms of the same length by a court on Monday.
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A Moroccan court on Friday convicted eight Islamists for plotting terrorist attacks and jailed them for up to 15 years amid heightened fears of an al Qaeda attack, lawyers said.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities charged nine French nationals on Tuesday with abduction and fraud after they were detained trying to fly 103 children to live with families in Europe, Chad's government said.
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Six workers were sentenced in Chad for trying to bring children they said were Darfur war orphans to Europe.
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A judge sentenced six French aid workers to eight years hard labor Wednesday after convicting them of trying to kidnap 103 children in the central African country of Chad.
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N'DJAMENA  - France asked Chad on Thursday to send home six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103 children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison &#151; the longest sentence yet in the case.
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N'DJAMENA  - A court in Chad has set December 21 as the date for the start of the trial of six French humanitarian workers accused of trying to smuggle 103 African children to Europe, lawyers said on Thursday.
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Six French aid workers were sentenced  to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found  them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from  the African country.