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...landslide victory in Burma's 1990 election after party head Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest?the ruling junta has never honored that electoral result. After the election, Kyi Maung, who had often been detained in the past, was sentenced to 20 years in jail but was released in 1995. He eventually fell out with Suu Kyi over how best to fight the junta...
...half-Indian, half-Vietnamese Sobhraj is alleged to be one of Asia's deadliest serial killers, preying on Western backpackers on the hippie circuit in the 1970s. Brilliant, charming and fluent in seven languages, he taunted police with their inability to catch or keep him, breaking out of jail four times. He is accused of killing another backpacker in Nepal, as well as five more in Thailand, two in India and one in Pakistan. Sobhraj vowed to appeal, claiming he was "found guilty without witnesses and evidence...
...taking the high road and admitting that she had made a mistake. Bruce Weinstein New York City I was outraged by Stewart's remark that "there [are] many other people that have gone to prison. Look at Nelson Mandela." How dare she even hint at any parallels between her jail sentence and Mandela's ordeal. Her upcoming prison time has nothing at all to do with the 27 years Mandela spent locked up under inhumane conditions. Stewart is going to prison because she lied about a transaction aimed at making her even richer. Mandela risked his life and was imprisoned...
...cloning using human embryos. The scientists hope to use stem cells from the embryos to develop treatments for diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer's. Papal Sanction AUSTRIA A court in St. Poelten, near Vienna, gave a former student at a Catholic seminary in the city a six-month suspended jail sentence for possessing child pornography. A day earlier, a papal envoy investigating wider allegations of sexual impropriety shut down the college. In the Frame ROMANIA Prosecutors indicted Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu and 79 other officials on charges of fraud in relation to the sale of state-owned ships...
Every adult male person in the town got involved with drug trade, she said, and every one of them wound up in jail. For around five years, the town was entirely run by females...