An appeals court in Milan upheld a conviction on Wednesday of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud, sentencing him to four years in prison and imposing a five-year ban on holding public office.
ROME — An appeals court in Milan upheld a conviction on Wednesday of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud, sentencing him to four years in prison and imposing a five-year ban on holding public office.
And on Wednesday, a court in Pakistan convicted a doctor who helped the C.I.A. in the search for Osama bin Laden, sentencing him to 33 years in prison for treason.
Cambodia's war crimes court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC, deserves credit for convicting Kaing Guek Eav, better known as "Duch," for war crimes and sentencing him to 35 years in prison.
But in 1992 his outspokenness finally provoked the conservative Guardian Council into barring him from running for most elected posts and sentencing him to a month in solitary confinement.
While sentencing him, the judge said that while Doran had exploited his victim for 13 years, he could only sentence him for the period of 2010 to 2013, which is when the offence of forced labour was created.
The judge declared von Habsburg to be "not a good candidate for probation" and sentenced him to three and a half years in prison.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has convicted a Gaza man on charges of spying for Israel and sentenced him to death, Hamas announced Thursday.
A decade earlier, the French Army, trying to cover a security leak, had arrested a Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus, tried him for treason, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
A court found a 15-year-old youth guilty of "practicing sexual immorality," a local phrase for homosexuality, and sentenced him to three years in juvenile detention.
