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Holder criticizes some states over electoral college maneuvers, calls some prison sentences too long
Posted by admin on April 6th, 2013
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No Comments »Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader to death for war crimes
Posted by admin on February 28th, 2013
DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Thursday, the third verdict by the court set up to investigate abuses during the country’s independence war. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 73, vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of charges of mass killing, rape, arson, looting and forcing [...]
China sentences 16 for violent protest against pollution
Posted by admin on February 7th, 2013
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has sentenced 16 people to up to a year-and-a-half in prison for involvement in an environmental protest last July when a crowd of thousands ransacked government offices, the official Xinhua news agency reported. A court in Qidong city, 65 km (40 miles) north of Shanghai, charged the group of demonstrators with [...]
Riots over Egyptian death sentences kill at least 32
Posted by admin on January 27th, 2013
PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 32 people were killed on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, violence that compounds a political crisis facing Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said, where [...]
Bahrain’s top court upholds sentences against uprising leaders: lawyer
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2013
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain’s highest appeal court upheld sentences against 13 leaders of a 2011 uprising on Monday, a defense lawyer said, in a decision that could further fuel unrest in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state. The sentences, originally handed down by a military court and upheld by a civilian court in September last year, [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: against, Bahrain's, Court, lawyer, leaders, Sentences, upholds, uprising No Comments »In rare case, Beijing court sentences petitioner interceptors
Posted by admin on December 2nd, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Beijing court has sentenced 10 people to up to 18 months in jail for illegally detaining petitioners from another city, state media reported on Sunday, in a rare case of the judiciary taking on the shadowy men who operate on the margins of the law. Those convicted were hired by authorities [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Beijing, case, Court, interceptors, petitioner, rare, Sentences No Comments »Hague tribunal acquits Croatian officers, overturns sentences
Posted by admin on November 16th, 2012
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of the most senior Croatian military officer charged with crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The court ordered the immediate release of Ante Gotovina, who was commander in the Split district of the Croatian army, who had been sentenced to 24 years [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: acquits, Croatian, Hague, officer's, overturns, Sentences, tribunal No Comments »Jordan sentences ex-spy chief to 13 years in jail on graft charges
Posted by admin on November 11th, 2012
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s former spy chief, once of the country’s most feared officials, was sentenced on Sunday to 13 years in prison on graft charges in the first high-profile case from an anti-corruption crackdown driven by popular protests. An Amman court found former General Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the country’s intelligence services from 2005 [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: charges, chief, exspy, Graft, Jail, Jordan, Sentences, Years No Comments »China sentences four to death for murders on the Mekong
Posted by admin on November 6th, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in southwestern China on Tuesday sentenced a Myanmar drug smuggler and three members of his gang to death for murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in a case marking China’s growing law-enforcement role beyond its borders. China’s official Xinhua news agency said that chief suspect Naw Kham, who [...]
Croatia sentences wartime guards for abuse of Serbs
Posted by admin on October 31st, 2012
ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia sentenced five former policemen to between one and three and a half years in prison on Wednesday for torturing ethnic Serb prisoners during Croatia’s 1991-95 war for independence. Croatia is scheduled to join the European Union in July, but its judiciary, human rights and war crimes trials remain under scrutiny. Brussels [...]
