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New Delhi |
India introduces death penalty for child rapists |
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| Mar. 29 |
Paris |
Sarkozy: France's ex-president to face corruption trial
| Mar.21 |
Paris |
Sarkozy charged in connection with alleged Libyan funding Former French President was placed under formal investigation over allegations in his 2007 presidential campaign
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| Dec.1 |
Washington |
Trump-Russia: Michael Flynn admits lying to FBI |
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| Nov.29 |
Hague |
Bosnian Croat war criminal dies after taking poison in court Slobodan Praljak, 72, died in hospital after drinking poison during an appeal hearing in The Hague
| Nov.22 |
Hague |
Ratko Mladic jailed for life over Bosnia war genocide
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| Aug.28 |
India |
Indian guru sentenced to 20 years for rape |
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| Jul.12 |
Brazil |
Ex-Brazilian President Silva convicted of corruption
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| Jun.28 |
Melbourne |
Cardinal Pell: Vatican treasurer charged with sex offences
| Jun.26 |
Brazil |
Brazil's Michel Temer charged with corruption |
| Jun.13 |
North Korea |
Otto Warmbier: North Korea releases jailed US student 'in coma' |
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| May.19 |
Sweden |
Julian Assange rape charges dropped |
| May.8 |
Jakarta |
Jakarta governor given 2-year prison sentence for blasphemy |
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| Jan.17 |
Washington |
Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence |
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| Nov.15 |
Jakarta |
'Ahok': Police name Jakarta governor as blasphemy suspect |
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| May.25 |
Kiev |
Nadiya Savchenko: Russia frees Ukraine servicewoman |
| May.10 |
Bangladesh |
Bangladeshi Islamist leader hanged |
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| Apr.20 |
Norway |
Anders Behring Breivik wins human rights case |
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| Mar.24 |
Hague |
Karadzic jailed for Bosnia war Srebrenica genocide |
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| Feb.10 |
North Korea |
N. Korean leader Kim had his military chief executed |
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| Jan.2 |
Saudi Arabia |
Anger at execution of top Shia cleric Saudi Arabia's execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has sparked anger and protests in Shia communities across the region | |
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| Nov.20 |
North Carolina |
Israel spy Pollard freed by US after 30 years in prison |
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| May.28 |
FBI |
Former Speaker Dennis Hastert indicted |
| May.12 |
North Korea |
North Korea Defence Chief Hyon Yong-chol 'executed' Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed, South Korea's spy agency has told parliament, according to media reports
| May.1 |
Baltimore |
Freddie Gray: Baltimore police to face criminal charges |
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| Apr.28 |
Indonesia |
Indonesia executions: Australia recalls ambassador |
| Apr.7 |
South Carolina |
White officer charged over unarmed black man's death |
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| Mar.27 |
Rome |
Italian court acquits Knox and Sollecito |
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| Feb.3 |
Jordan |
Jordan executes convicted jihadists after pilot's death |
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| Dec.3 |
New York |
Federal probe into NY chokehold case |
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| Nov.29 |
Cairo |
Mubarak cleared over protest killings |
| Nov.24 |
Missouri |
No indictment over Ferguson killing
Map of Ferguson Missouri Missouri A grand jury has decided not to charge a Missouri policeman over the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown
State prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury exhaustively examined evidence. Brown's family said they were 'profoundly disappointed'
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| Nov.10 |
South Korea |
Ferry captain sentenced to 36 years in jail |
| Nov.8 |
North Korea |
North Korea frees detained US men Miller and Bae |
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| Oct.21 |
South Africa |
Oscar Pistorius sentenced to maximum of five years in prison
Map of Pretoria South Africa A judge sentenced former Olympic and Paralymic sprinter to a maximum of 5 years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend last February
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| Sep.12 |
South Africa |
Judge finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide
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| Aug.6 |
Cambodia |
Top Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of crimes against humanity
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| Jun.23 |
Cairo |
Al-Jazeera trio jailed in Egypt |
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| Mar.31 |
Tel Aviv |
Israel's Olmert convicted of bribery |
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| Feb.22 |
Eastern Ukraine |
Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko freed |
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| Jan.30 |
Northern Italy |
Amanda Knox found guilty of murder again |
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| Dec.20 |
Russia |
Khodorkovsky leaves Russian prison after Putin signs pardon |
| Dec.12 |
North Korea |
North Korea: Leader's uncle executed
Jang Song Thaek, an uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has been executed for trying to overthrow the government
| Oct.25 |
Greece |
Greek couple accused of buying Roma baby
| Sep.21 |
China |
Bo Xilai found guilty of corruption
| Sep.13 |
New Delhi |
Court sentences 4 men to death in gang rape case |
| Aug.21 |
China |
Bo Xilai: Disgraced politician goes on trial |
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Baltimore |
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in Wikileaks case
The US soldier convicted of handing a trove of secret government documents to anti-secrecy website has been sentenced to 35 years in prison
| Aug.1 |
Rome |
Berlusconi rages at prison ruling |
| Jul.30 |
Baltimore |
Wikileaks source Manning convicted |
| Jul.17 |
Russia |
Protest leader Alexei Navalny convicted |
| Jul.13 |
Florida |
George Zimmerman not guilty of Trayvon Martin murder
George Zimmerman, the Florida neighbourhood watchman who shot dead an unarmed black 17-year-old male last year, has been found not guilty
| Jun.24 |
Milan |
Berlusconi convicted in sex trial
| May.10 |
Guatemala |
Guatemala's Rios Montt found guilty of genocide |
| Feb.22 |
South Africa |
Oscar Pistorius granted bail |
| Feb.20 |
South Africa |
Pistorius detective on attempted murder charges |
| Feb.14 |
South Africa |
Pistorius charged with killing girlfriend
Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder in the death of Reeva Steenkamp, 29, at his South Africa
| Jan.26 |
Egypt |
Fans verdicts spark Egypt unrest
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| Nov.20 |
Mumbai |
Mumbai attack gunman Qasab executed |
| Oct.26 |
Milan |
Berlusconi handed 4-year prison term for tax fraud
| Oct.22 |
Italy |
Italy's quake scientists jailed
| Oct.6 |
Vatican |
Pope's ex-butler gets 18 months in prison
Paolo Gabriele, was convicted Saturday of aggravated theft for leaking confidential papal documents and sentenced to 18 months in prison
| Aug.24 |
Norway |
Breivik given 21-year prison term
| Aug.19 |
China |
Bo Xilai's wife convicted of murder
A court suspended the death sentence of Gu Kailai, the wife of a disgraced party leader, after finding her guilty of murder in the death of a...
| Aug.17 |
Moscow |
Pussy Riot found guilty of hooliganism |
| Jun.22 |
Pennsylvania |
Jerry Sandusky guilty of child sex abuse |
| Jun.2 |
Cairo |
Mubarak jailed for protest deaths 
An Egyptian court has sentenced ex-President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising. The 84-year-old is the first ex-leader to be tried in ... | |
| May.23 |
Peshawar |
Pakistani doctor in bin Laden raid gets 33 years in prison |
| Apr.26 |
Netherlands |
Charles Taylor aided S Leone war crimes
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| Dec.15 |
Paris |
Chirac found guilty on corruption charges |
| Nov.29 |
Norway |
Breivik declared insane
| Nov.7 |
Los Angeles |
Doctor guilty over Michael Jackson death
| Oct.3 |
Italy |
Knox murder conviction overturned
| Aug.23 |
New York |
Strauss-Kahn sex case dismissed |
| Aug.20 |
Iran |
U.S. hikers get eight years in prison |
| Jul.1 |
New York |
Judge releases Strauss-Kahn |
| Jun.27 |
Hague |
ICC issues warrant for Gadhafi |
| May.31 |
Serbia |
Appeal fails; Mladic extradited to Hague |
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| Dec.30 |
Tel Aviv |
Ex-president guilty of rape, harassment |
| Dec.27 |
Moscow |
Russian court finds Khodorkovsky guilty
| Dec.16 |
London |
Wikileaks founder Assange freed on bail |
| Dec.7 |
London |
Assange jailed as extradition considered
| Jul.7 |
Cuba |
Cuba to release 52 political prisoners |
| Jun.28 |
Washington |
Feds charge 10 with spying for Russia |
| Jun.24 |
Belgium |
Belgian Catholic offices raided in sex probe |
| May.3 |
Mumbai |
Pakistani man convicted for 2008 siege |
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| Aug.4 |
North Korea |
N. Korean leader pardons U.S. journalists |
| Jun.29 |
New York |
Fraudster Madoff gets 150 years |
| Apr.17 |
Sweden |
Court jails Pirate Bay founders |
| Mar.19 |
Austria |
Fritzl jailed for life in dungeon incest case |
| Mar.4 |
Hague |
Arrest warrant issued for Sudan leader
The International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for a five-year campaign of viole...
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Sudan |
President charged with genocide |
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| Dec.11 |
Peru |
Fujimori gets 6 years in prison |
| Nov.29 |
Sudan |
UK teacher jailed over teddy row |
| Sep.21 |
Chile |
Chile court extradites Fujimori |
| Jul.23 |
Libya |
HIV medics released to Bulgaria
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| Dec.29 |
Baghdad |
Saddam Hussein hanged 
The celebrations broke out after Hussein was dead. There was dancing around the body. The execution was videotaped. He was convicted of killings in the town of Dujail 25 years ago. U.S. district judge refused a request to stay the ex... | |
| Nov.5 |
Baghdad |
Saddam Hussein sentenced to death
| May.8 |
Johannesburg |
Zuma acquitted in rape case |
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| Nov.24 |
Chile |
Pinochet charged over dissidents |
| Jun.13 |
Southern California |
Michael Jackson cleared on all counts |
| May.31 |
Moscow |
Khodorkovsky jailed for 9 years |
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| Jul.1 |
Baghdad |
Defiant Saddam in court |
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| Nov.20 |
Southern California |
Jackson arrested |
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| Jun.28 |
Belgrade |
Milosevic extradited to Hague
| May. 31, 1962 |
Israel |
Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel
Map of Ramla Israel A German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust | |
| Nov. 20, 1945 |
Bavaria |
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal began
Map of Nuremberg Germany Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, for the prosecution of prominent members of leadership of Nazi Germany
| Aug. 3, 1916 |
London |
Sir Roger Casement hanged
He sought to obtain German support and weapons for an armed rebellion in Ireland against British rule during WWI
| Oct. 13, 1815 |
Southern Italy |
Joachim Murat, King of Two Sicilies, executed
| Jul. 28, 1794 |
Paris |
Maximilien Mavie Isidore Robespierre guillotined
Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution
| Jun. 23, 1793 |
Paris |
Reign of Terror begins in France Incited by conflict between the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of 'enemies of the revolution'
| Oct. 16, 1793 |
Paris |
Marie Antoinette guillotined Born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792
| Jan. 21, 1793 |
Paris |
Louis XVI guillotined
Map of Place de la R%E9volution Paris France He was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by as a desacralized French citizen known as 'Citizen Louis Capet'
| Nov. 7, 1783 |
Spain |
Last public burning by the Spanish Inquisition
| Oct. 29, 1618 |
London |
Sir Walter Raleigh executed
| Jan. 31, 1606 |
London |
Guy Fawkes hanged
| Feb. 8, 1587 |
England |
Mary Queen of Scots executed
Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567 and Queen consort of France
| Mar. 21, 1556 |
England |
Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake
| May. 15, 1536 |
London |
Anne Boleyn beheaded |
| Oct. 6, 1536 |
Belgium |
William Tyndale burned at the stake |