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• Up to Saudis to review punishment, US says

  - 2007-11-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US State Department Tuesday voiced its "astonishment" at the sentencing of a Saudi victim of rape to 200 lashes and six months in jail but stopped short of calling for it to be changed. "I think when you look at the crime and the fact...

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• Pardons hard to come by as executions mount in Saudi

  - 2007-06-08

  RIYADH AFP — Not even the king can save a convict on death row for premeditated murder from the executioner's sword in Saudi Arabia. The death penalty is here to stay in the ultra-conservative kingdom, where there has been a dramatic spike in the number of executions this year...

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• Palestinian PM slams 'collective punishment'

  - 2006-07-06

  GAZA CITY AFP — Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya has slammed an Israeli offensive as "collective punishment" against the Palestinians and demanded the international community intervene to end it. "What Israel is doing is exposing its plan to reoccupy large sectors of the Gaza Strip, strike its infrastructure, impose...

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• Santander brace for punishment over racist abuse of Eto'o

  - 2006-04-10

  MADRID AFP — Spanish club Racing Santander were bracing for disciplinary action after Barcelona's Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o was subjected to racist abuse yet again at the weekend. Santander's fans bombarded Eto'o with monkey chants in the latest racist incident to blight Spanish football and now face punishment from...

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• World Cup hooligans face swift legal action

  - 2006-03-08

  BERLIN AFP — German courts want to speed up the legal process to mete out swift punishments to suspected hooligans at this summer's World Cup, German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries declared. "If there is clear evidence, the perpetrators should face trial within 24 hours," Zypries said in Die Welt...

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• China detains 11 people in connection with deadly coal mine flooding

  - 2005-08-11

  BEIJING, AFP — China detained 11 people over the flooding of an unlicensed mine and warned of severe punishment for anyone ignoring safety regulations as the search continued for 122 missing workers. The 11 -- who include the mine's owner, manager, board chairman and chief technician -- fled after...

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• Zimbabwe says 'coup plotters' backed by US, Britain, Spain

  - 2004-03-10

  HARARE AFP ? Zimbabwe said 67 presumed mercenaries arrested after the seizure of a suspect plane could face the death penalty, charging they were due to join coup plotters in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a conspiracy backed by Britain, Spain and the United States. Harare claimed they had then...

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• Colin Powell warns Turkey over delayed case of alleged police torture

  - 2004-02-26

  ANKARA AFP ? US Secretary of State Colin Powell has written to the Turkish government to express concern over the case of police officers, accused of torturing a student to death, whose court case is so regularly delayed if might be subject to a statute of limitations, a Turkish diplomat...

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