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New book gives intimate portrait of convicted Knox (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, is quoted as saying in a new book that she’d rather not be famous for…

7 defendants convicted in Portugal sex abuse trial (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

Bernardo Teixeira, one of the alleged victims of child sex abuse at a state-run children's home in Lisbon called Casa Pia arrives at a court in Lisbon, Friday, Sept. 3 2010 for the verdict of the major child sex abuse trial that has lasted almost six years. A former worker at a state-run orphanage admitted to participating in a network that systematically abused children and implicated six other defendants including Carlos Cruz . (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - A Portuguese court found six men and one woman guilty Friday of crimes relating to child sex abuse in a major trial that lasted nearly six years, a…

Japan deports convicted NZ anti-whaling activist (AP)

July 9th, 2010

New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune wipes tears as he talks to the media on his arrival at Auckland International Airport in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, July 10, 2010. Japan deported Bethune Friday who was convicted of assault and obstruction as he attempted to stop the annual Japanese whale hunt. (AP Photo/NZPA, Wayne Drought) ** NEW ZEALAND OUT **AP - Japan deported a New Zealand activist convicted of assault and obstruction after he attempted to stop the annual Japanese whale hunt.


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3 British men convicted over airliner bomb plot (AP)

July 8th, 2010

These are undated Metropolitan Police Service handout file photos of from left to right Arafat Waheed Khan, Waheed Zaman and Ibrahim Savant. A jury has convicted the three British Muslims of conspiracy to murder in a plot to blow up passenger planes over the Atlantic Ocean. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman were found guilty Thursday July 8, 2010. at London's Woolwich Crown Court. (AP Photo Metropolitan Police, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A jury on Thursday convicted three British Muslims of conspiring to murder hundreds of people as part of a plot to blow up passenger planes over the Atlantic.


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US doctor convicted of manslaughter in Australia (AP)

June 29th, 2010

An India-born surgeon dubbed AP - An American doctor accused of botching a string of operations while he was the chief surgeon at an Australian hospital was found guilty Tuesday of killing three of…

US missionary convicted in Haiti, but free to go (AP)

May 17th, 2010

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, U.S. missionary Laura Silsby, 40, of Meridian, Idaho, is escorted by police officers upon her arrival to the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The missionary should spend six months in prison for her failed attempt to remove 33 children from Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake, a prosecutor said Thursday, May 13, 2010 on the first day of her trial. Prosecutor Sonel Jean-Francois told the court that Laura Silsby knew she was breaking the law by trying to take the children without proper documents to an orphanage she was starting in the neighboring Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)AP - The last of 10 Americans detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake was released Monday after a judge convicted her…

Anger over freeing man convicted in bishop murder (AP)

March 19th, 2010

AP - Guatemalan human rights groups expressed outrage Thursday over a judge’s decision to release a former army colonel convicted of killing a prominent Roman Catholic bishop more than a…

German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser (AP)

March 15th, 2010

AP - A German archdiocese that Pope Benedict XVI oversaw from 1977 to 1982 said Monday that a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing children has been suspended for…

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