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...five defendants in the mass trial of more than 100 accused dissidents were sentenced to death. It was unclear if that included the three capital-punishment sentences meted out last month. Eighty-one others in the case, which stems from demonstrations that followed June's contested presidential election, received prison terms ranging from six months to 15 years...
When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of Pol Pot's soldiers murdered 4-year-old Theary Seng's father. Later, Theary Seng, her mother and siblings ended up in a prison in southeast Cambodia. One day, Theary Seng awoke to an empty cell - the prison population had been massacred overnight. In a rare act of mercy, the Khmer Rouge soldiers allowed the handful of children to survive. Theary Seng eventually escaped to a Thai refugee camp and then to the U.S. Her story is by no means unique in Cambodia...
...their own set of lawyers. On Friday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the tribunal - finished hearing its first case. Prosecutors sought a 40-year jail sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, (pronounced Doik) who ran the notorious S-21 prison, a Phnom Penh high school transformed into an interrogation center where Duch is accused of overseeing the grisly deaths of approximately 15,000 people. Over the last six months of hearings, the court heard accounts of interrogators who ripped off toenails, suffocated prisoners with plastic bags, forced people...
...slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who also faced corruption charges. (Zardari had previously served two stints and a total of 11 years behind bars, having been arrested, although never convicted, under former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, released when his wife came to power, and then sent back to prison after Sharif was reelected - before being freed under the deal with Musharraf.) (See pictures of Bhutto's village in mourning...
...Muhammad and his juvenile accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo--were caught, they had so little reason for murder that they hardly even tried to explain themselves. There was the older man's anger, the younger man's loneliness, a quarter-baked extortion plot. Late on Nov. 10, in a Virginia prison, it was Muhammad who paid the final price. With relatives of his victims watching, he went to his execution as vacant and silent as those deserted playgrounds. "It's over," said a witness, for there was little else...