All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE youthfulness of an 18-year-old Mariental resident who has been convicted on two rape charges that date back to 2005 saved him from being sentenced to more than a four-year prison term at the end of his trial in the High Court in Windhoek last week.
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | yesterday
MIAMI (AP) _ A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others.
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the four-year prison sentence which a special court for the clergy in the religious city of Qom imposed on online journalist and cleric Mojtaba Lotfi on 29 November for disseminating the views of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri and for “publicity against the government.”
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
A Venezuelan lawyer sent to the U.S. by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase political scandal has been handed a two-year prison sentence by a U.S. judge.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oslo - A Norwegian national of Bosnian descent was sentenced Tuesday to a five-year jail term for crimes against Serbian civilians during the Balkans war. The district court in Oslo convicted Mirsad Repak on 11 counts of illegal detention of civilian...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... of Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and others. But that was then, and this — a and a possible 10-year prison sentence for tabloid source Lawanda Jackson — is now.Jackson, 49, who had managed just fine at UCLA Medical Center for 32 years without feeding confidential files to the press, will now do hard time and pay a fine of up to $250,000 for doing exactly that back in...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
MIAMI - A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others.U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard imposed the sentence on Moises Maionica after prosecutors recommended prison time even as they...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
AP posted: 13 HOURS 32 MINUTES AGO YANGON, Myanmar -A court inside Myanmar’s notorious Insein prison sentenced a comedian who has criticized the government’s cyclone response to 14 more years Thursday, bringing his total prison term to 59 years, his lawyer said. Comedian and activist Zarganar was given a 45-year prison sentence last...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
A court inside Myanmar's notorious Insein prison sentenced a comedian who has criticized the government's cyclone response to 14 more years Thursday, bringing his total prison term to 59 years, his lawyer said.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
A court inside Myanmar's notorious Insein prison sentenced a comedian who has criticized the government's cyclone response to 14 more years Thursday, bringing his total prison term to 59 years, his lawyer said. Comedian and activist Zarganar was given a 45-...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
A court inside Myanmar's notorious Insein prison sentenced a comedian who has criticized the government's cyclone response to 14 more years Thursday, bringing his total prison term to 59 years, his lawyer said.
