Death penalty requested for Ethiopian opposition figures
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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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A verdict is expected in the 12-year genocide trial of Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler, Mengistu Haile Mariam.
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The United Nations on Friday said it was "very disturbed" by the death in prison of a human rights activist and journalist in Turkmenistan, and called for an independent investigation.
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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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The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday called for a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing executions, approving a resolution opposed by the U.S., China and Iran.
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MALABO - The prosecution demanded death sentences and jail terms exceeding a century in a trial of alleged putschists accused of plotting against Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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An EU election observer says she is "appalled" at the life sentences given to 30 Ethiopian opposition leaders.
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Dozens of oppositions members sentenced to heavy jail terms in a judgement that has provoked a wave of international criticism have filed requests for pardon, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Somalia's embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi is in Ethiopia's capital for talks as he fights to retain his post.
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The African Union is open to proposals for sanctions on a Burundi Hutu rebel group suspected of involvement in last week&#39;s massacre of more than 150 Tutsis in Burundi.
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An Ethiopian immigrant suspected of  torturing and murdering more than a dozen political opponents  of the Ethiopian government in the 1970s was arrested on  Tuesday at his home near Atlanta, federal officials said.
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A death sentence handed to a reporter in Afghanistan has prompted the United Nations and several press freedom organizations to urge the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to intervene in the case.
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A court in northern Nigeria has sentenced two women to death by stoning for allegedly committing adultery, and both will soon appeal the sentences, a human rights group said Friday.
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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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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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Five people die in Kenya as the opposition leader calls for international mediation to end post-poll violence.
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Peru's president urges MPs to impose the death penalty, after an attack by suspected rebels kills eight people.