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Tuesday 21 May

An armed Somali pirate along the coastline while the Greek cargo ship, MV Filitsa, is seen anchored offshore. An Italian court on Friday sentenced eight Somali pirates to between 16 and 19 years in prison for attempting to hijack an Italian-flagged cargo ship in 2011 after one of Europe's biggest piracy trials.

Bulletin: Italy court sentences eight Somali pirates: report

Bulletin: Italy court sentences eight Somali pirates: report

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Tunisian protest over violence against women in front of a court in Tunis where a young Tunisian woman, allegedly raped by two policemen, was due alongside her fiance on Octobre 2, 2012, facing charges of indecency. The case against the woman has been dropped, her lawyer said Thursday.

Bulletin: Case against Tunisian woman raped by police dropped

Bulletin: Case against Tunisian woman raped by police dropped

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The trial of soldiers implicated in a mutiny that rocked the regime of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, pictured on November 11, opened Tuesday in Ouagadougou, with verdicts handed down in a handful of cases.

Bulletin: Trial of army mutineers begins in Burkina Faso

Bulletin: Trial of army mutineers begins in Burkina Faso

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British theatre producer David Cecil waves from a court cell at the Makindye Court in Kampala. A Ugandan court postponed the trial of Cecil for staging a play about a gay man without proper authorisation until early next year.

Bulletin: Uganda postpones trial of British gay play producer

Bulletin: Uganda postpones trial of British gay play producer

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The dean of the faculty of arts, letters and humanities at Manouba University Habib Kazdoghli arrives at the the first instance court of Manouba, July 2012. Rights activists and politicians protested outside a court in Tunis to support a university dean accused of violence towards a veiled female student, his lawyer said, as the trial adjourned.

Bulletin: Demo to support Tunisia university dean, trial adjourned

Bulletin: Demo to support Tunisia university dean, trial adjourned

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Tunisian police face rioters, some of them Salafists, in June 2012 in Intilaka, west of Tunis. The death of two detained Salafists on hunger strike has caused a dilemma for the Tunisian government, which is under pressure to rein in the radical Islamists but is also accused of killing the two protesters.

Bulletin: Tunisia govt faces dilemma over Islamist hunger strikers

Bulletin: Tunisia govt faces dilemma over Islamist hunger strikers

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Xolile Mngeni, pictured at Cape Town's High Court. A South African judge has found Mngeni guilty of killing newly-wed Anni Dewani in November 2010, when she was on honeymoon in Cape Town.

Bulletin: S. African man found guilty of Dewani murder

Bulletin: S. African man found guilty of Dewani murder

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Rwandan children orphaned by the country's genocide line up for food on July 17, 1994, at the old French school in Kigali. A Swede of Rwandan origin went on trial Friday on charges of taking part in the killings of tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide in his homeland, the first such case in the Nordic country.

Bulletin: First trial in Sweden over Rwanda genocide

Bulletin: First trial in Sweden over Rwanda genocide

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Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, Moamer Kadhafi's last prime minister, seen here in 2010, has become the highest ranking former regime official to go before Libyan judges. He is accused of "committing prejudicial acts against the security of the state and financial crimes".

Bulletin: Kadhafi's ex-PM faces Libyan judges for first time

Bulletin: Kadhafi's ex-PM faces Libyan judges for first time

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Then-Libyan prime ministerAl-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi in Tunis on October 28, 2010. The trial of late dictator Moamer Kadhafi's last prime minister will open in the Libyan capital on Monday, the public prosecutor's spokesman said.

Bulletin: Trial of Libyan ex-PM to open Monday: prosecution

Bulletin: Trial of Libyan ex-PM to open Monday: prosecution

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