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Amnesty International has welcomed the conviction of three Turkish soldiers for “intentionally wounding” a conscientious objector while he was in military custody.A military court in Istanbul sentenced the soldiers to three months and 10 days'...
Tags: Amnesty, ill-treatment, military court, conscientious objector, Amnesty International&rsquo, military prisoners, soldiers conviction, Conscription
The military court hearing the mutiny charges against the remaining 17 military officials and junior officers allegedly involved in a power grab plot in 2006, on Tuesday denied a motion acquitting them of the charges. The motion was filed by the defense...
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A military court in Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death on Tuesday and ordered them and their government to pay more than $60-million in damages after the pair were convicted of murder in the central African nation. The Norwegians, Joshua French (27)...
Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese, Joshua French, Kisangani, Norway, Norwegian, Tjostolv Moland, military court, death sentenced, congo sentenced
Israel may release the speaker of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament in the coming few hours, his lawyer said Wednesday. The Israeli Military Court of Ofar, located in the occupied West Bank, today rejected an appeal to extend the detention...
Tags: Aziz Dweik, Israeli, Hamas, military court, Palestinian Parliament
MP Boutros Harb called the release of the man arrested for the death of Lebanese army pilot Samer Hanna âa scandal and an unacceptable act,â An-Nahar reported on Wednesday. The man was accused of accidently killing Hanna on August 28, 2008 in the...
Tags: Samer Hannaâ, Lebanese Army, Lebanese Armed Forces, pilot samer, army pilot, Boutros Harb, military court
Gaza Division Commander Brig.-Gen Moshe Tamir will be demoted to the rank of major general, and his driver's license will be revoked for three years, a military court ruled on Thursday. Tamir was also given a three-month suspended sentence. An investigation...
Tags: Moshe Tamir, gaza division, IDF, military court, old son
Egyptian authorities sent a leading Islamist to military trial on Tuesday on a charge of crossing into Gaza through a border tunnel last month, judicial sources and the man's wife said. Magdi Ahmed Hussein, who was secretary-general of the small Labour...
Tags: Egyptian, Magdi Hussein, Gaza, military court, Magdi Ahmed Hussein
Robert Semrau was escorted by military police as he appeared in court at Canadian Forces Petawawa today to face a charge of second degree murder. Semrau, accused of shooting, "with intent to kill," an unarmed man in Afghanistan's Helmand province in October,...
Tags: Robert Semrau, Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, Helmand Province, degree murder, military court, Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, severely wounded, Canadian Forces Petawawa, Taliban
The sentencing came as Israel threatened to invade Gaza to stop rocket attacks, brushing off a plea from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to show restraint and appealing directly to Gaza's people to stop the barrages. Two rockets and 15 mortar shells...
Tags: israel, Israeli, palestine, rockets, Ahmed Saadat, PFLP, Popular Front, Rechavam Zeevi, military court
Three men accused of being involved in the 2006 shooting murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya are standing trial in a Moscow military court. On Monday, the judge rejected the prosecution's request that the court be closed, because of...
Tags: Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow, journalists anna, politkovskaya trial, closes doors, men accused, trial closes, moscow court, Russian, military court