Mr. Zuma has been accused of accepting 783 payments from his friend and financial adviser, Shabir Shaik, a wealthy businessmen who was convicted of bribing Mr. Zuma and sentenced to 15 years in prison — a verdict upheld on appeal in 2006.
After sentencing the couple to one year in prison (a verdict that was suspended on the condition that the Lovings leave the state), Judge Bazile later offered this statement when they were contesting their conviction: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents.
In Istanbul, authorities cautioned people to remain indoors from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Douglas Frantz (NYT) GERMANY: SYNAGOGUE BOMBERS JAILED -- Two teenagers who threw gasoline bombs at a synagogue in eastern Germany on Hitler's birthday were convicted and sentenced to prison, a verdict meant to show that Germany takes combating far-right violence seriously.
He was found guilty of kidnapping political prisoners in a 1986 trial and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but that verdict was later vacated because of the amnesty provision, which granted immunity from prosecution to officials who were following their superiors' orders.
General Ríos Montt spent three nights in prison after the verdict before being transferred to a military hospital.
Mr. von Bülow was sentenced to prison, but the verdict was overturned on appeal in a case that was dramatized in another film, "Reversal of Fortune," in 1990.
A court sentenced a journalist to six years in prison, overruling the verdict of an appeals court that had reduced the original 10-year prison term to six months.
When Peru's Supreme Court found former president Alberto Fujimori guilty in April of the kidnapping, injury and murder of civilians in the 1990s and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, the historic verdict resonated around the world: the first conviction of an elected Latin American leader for human rights abuses by his own country.
Dozens of people gathered outside the prison after the verdict chanting pro-Qadri slogans.
