Jail term for Bahraini activist
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A Bahrain court sentences a human rights activist to one year in jail for inciting hatred against the state.
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A newspaper editor in Yemen gets a year in jail for reprinting Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A court has sentenced an independent rights activist and journalist to six years in jail for extortion amid a sweeping government crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state.
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Human rights activists protested outside a top-security jail in London where some foreign nationals have been detained without trial for almost three years under controversial anti-terrorism laws.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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Muslim activist Abu Izzadeen is remanded on conditional bail charged with a terrorism offence.
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A Muslim activist, famous for interrupting a speech by Britain's Home Secretary John Reid last year, is set to appear in court charged with encouraging terrorism, police said.
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A terror suspect escaped from court in Bahrain Monday after a judge renewed the detention order and three fellow detainees for 30 days.
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A Moroccan court jailed a German tourist for six months for attempting to convert Muslims in the southern resort of Agadir, officials said on Wednesday.
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An Uzbek court has sentenced journalist to six years in jail for extortion, human rights groups said on Friday, condemning the trial as an attempt to silence free speech.
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A Syrian criminal court on Monday convicted a political activist of insulting the regime and contacting "hostile parties," sentencing him 18 months in jail, a human rights group said.
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Human rights activists on Wednesday condemned the detention of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for allegedly having sex with a prostitute, and his sentencing without trial to six months of &quot;re-education through labor.&quot; ...
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A prominent opposition figure was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after being convicted of stealing computers supposedly owned by the U.S. Embassy, a charge Washington labeled spurious and human rights groups called politically motivated.
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Dozens of people are detained following demonstrations in Bahrain after the death of a protester, reports say.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Three animal rights   activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were   sentenced to up to 6 years in prison on Tuesday for a campaign   against a British company that tests chemicals on animals.
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MANAMA: A Bahraini man has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, the family&#39;s lawyer told AFP yesterday. &quot;Mohamad Khan was arrested by Saudi authorities at about 10pm on Saturday after crossing the King Fahad Causeway,&quot; said Abdullah Hashim.
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Human rights activists on Wednesday condemned the detention of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for allegedly having sex with a prostitute, and his sentencing without trial to six months of "re-education through labor."