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# conviction - Saturday 11 May, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Guatemala

In world first, Guatemala convicts former president of genocide

Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and war crimes in a ruling arising from massacres of indigenous people in the 1980s.

# conviction - Wednesday 3 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie United States

Question marks over conviction as man is released after 42 years in jail

Louis Taylor was convicted of lighting a fire in a US hotel in 1970 which killed 29 people. After 42 years of maintaining his innocence, he has been released.

# conviction - Saturday 9 March, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Attacks

Convictions for acid attacks triple in Pakistan under tough new laws

The Pakistani government brought in tough new penalties in a bid to stop the dozens of acid attacks which take place every year.

# conviction - Wednesday 16 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Massereene

Brian Shivers faces retrial over Massereene barracks murders

Shivers yesterday won his appeal against his conviction for the murder of two British Army soldiers in Antrim nearly four years ago.

# conviction - Tuesday 15 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Brian Shivers

Shivers wins appeal against Massereene barracks conviction

Brian Shivers appealed against his conviction on two counts of murder, six of attempted murder and one related to possessing firearms.

# conviction - Friday 4 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Revenue

Almost 2,500 convictions for tax and excise offences in 2012

There were 25 convictions for serious tax evasion in 2012 according to figures released by Revenue this evening.

# conviction - Thursday 29 November, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Concorde

French court overturns Concorde crash convictions

Manslaughter convictions against Continental Airlines and a mechanic for the 2000 crash that killed 113 people were overturned.

# conviction - Wednesday 17 October, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Germany

Girl held for 3 days escapes in Germany

A 28-year-old man is being held by police after allegedly kidnapping the girl at knifepoint.

# conviction - Wednesday 3 October, 2012

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Mike Tyson refused visa to New Zealand due to prior rape conviction

Kiwi Prime Minister John Keys says he has ‘something deeply personal against people who rape other people’.

# conviction - Friday 27 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: The Twitter joke trial shows freedom of speech has to include comedy

It doesn’t matter if comedy is offensive or upsetting – free speech must allow for all speech, writes Simon Carty.

# conviction - Saturday 30 June, 2012

‘Boring? We’re making history’ – Xavi

The Barcelona midfielder says he has no regrets over Spain’s style of play at Euro 2012.

# conviction - Tuesday 19 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Pakistan

Pakistan court disqualifies its own Prime Minister from office

Yousuf Raza Gilani was convicted of contempt for refusing to ask authorities to reopen corruption cases. This bars him from being an MP, a law which the country’s Supreme Court today enforced.

# conviction - Sunday 3 June, 2012

From The Daily Edge London

Man used rubber mask to disguise skin colour during armed robberies

Henley Stephenson was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a series of armed robberies during which he donned a latex mask to disguise his skin colour.

# conviction - Monday 5 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Russia

Medvedev orders conviction review for Russian tycoon

Russian’s president has ordered a re-examination the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – whose imprisonment has been widely viewed as Kremlin punishment for his political ambitions.

# conviction - Wednesday 15 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Massereene

Shivers appeals against conviction for Massereene murders

The Derryman was convicted of the murder of two British soldiers and was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison last week.

# conviction - Tuesday 14 February, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Knox

Italian prosecutors seek to reinstate Amanda Knox conviction

Knox and former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito successfully appealed their conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher and were freed last year.

# conviction - Tuesday 21 June, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Tunisia

Tunisian ex-president sentenced to jail

Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi were convicted in absentia.

# conviction - Monday 20 June, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Australia

Rape charges against Irish nurse in Australia dropped

Anne-Marie O’Loughlin now hopes to return home.

# conviction - Thursday 3 March, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Hazel Stewart

Prosecutors may focus on Colin Howell’s second wife following Hazel Stewart conviction

Questions remain following the conviction of Hazel Stewart for the murder of her husband and her former lover’s wife yesterday.