Escaped from Dutch prison and lived in Germany.

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Nazi War Criminal Klaas Faber Dead

The prime minister tells MPs he will resist a European Court ruling to give prisoners the right to vote in UK elections.

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UK to fight prisoner votes ruling

A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason, officials told CNN.

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Doctor linked to bin Laden capture jailed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in its hunt for Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason in a ruling by tribal agency authorities in northwestern Pakistan, officials there said. Read full article > >

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Pakistani doctor who helped CIA locate bin Laden sentenced to prison for treason

The European Court of Human Rights says individual governments can decide how to implement a ban on convicted prisoners voting.

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UK can decide votes for prisoners

Five Egyptian policeman are sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for their roles in the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising.

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Jail for Egyptian protest police

Dharun Ravi could face 10 years in prison and be deported to his native India when he is sentenced Monday for spying on and intimidating his gay Rutgers University roommate, who then killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge.

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Sentencing set for ex-Rutgers student

David Cameron says Lockerbie bomer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi should never have been released from prison, while Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond says the investigation will continue.

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Cameron: Megrahi release ‘wrong’

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies at home in Tripoli, nearly three years after he was controversially freed from a Scottish prison.

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Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a shadowy Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people and whose release from prison in 2009 sparked international uproar, died Sunday in Tripoli, the Associated Press reported. He was 60. Read full article > >

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Officials say prisoners have taken control of a jail in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula where at least one person died in a fight between inmates on Wednesday.

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Inmates take over Honduras jail

JERUSALEM – Israeli and Palestinian officials announced Monday that more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners had agreed to end a nearly month-long hunger strike in exchange for concessions by Israel, including a modification to its practice of detention without charge or trial. Read full article > >

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Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike following agreement with Israel

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said Israel was withholding authorized weapons, and he expressed worries about a widespread prison hunger strike.

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Mahmoud Abbas Says Israel Is Hindering West Bank Security

There is no reason Marissa Alexander should spend the next 20 years in prison.

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Martin: Florida sentence an injustice

Retired Los Angeles Police Det. Stephanie Lazarus was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering her ex-boyfriend's wife in a jealous rage more than two decades ago.

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