Court sentences 27-year-old man to life imprisonment over rape

Kagera man gets life imprisonment for defiling girl (4)
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THE Court of Appeal has enhanced a 30-year jail term imposed on a resident of Karagwe in Kagera Region, Sostenes John, to life imprisonment for defiling a four-year old minor. Justices Edward Rutakangwa, Bernard Luanda and Ibrahim Juma ruled against ...

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Identification blunder saves Iringa man from life imprisonment
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POOR identification procedure has saved an Iringa Region resident, Cosmas Chalamila, from life imprisonment for sodomising a four-year old boy. Justices Mbarouk Mbarouk, Batuel Mmilla and Augustine Mwarija ruled in favour of Chalamila, the appellant, ...

Morogoro. For 80 year-old Protas Yakobo who migrated to Tanzania in 1958 from Burundi to seek green pastures in ever green sisal plantations, his dreams have gone asunder.

 The High Court postponed to February 19 the hearing of an appeal filed by Arusha resident Kibute Otienyi after the Prison Department failed to bring the appellant to court.

Home Secretary Theresa May's Home Secretary Theresa May's legislative programme was announced in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday, with the Serious Crime Bill one of the changes being introduced with an eye on tackling corrupt accountants, solicitors and even cyber-criminals by giving courts tougher judicial powers. In particular, the changes will allow police to seize assets from convicted gang bosses and will widen the punishment for so-called ‘Mr Big' criminals who often partake in...

MPs want life imprisonment for drug kingpins
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This followed their consensus that the earlier proposed public execution of drug trafficking kingpins was against international efforts to abolish capital punishment. Earlier the MPs had argued that hefty fines are not sufficient because the ringleaders are ...
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A court in Chad sentences to life in prison seven ex-policemen for torture committed during the rule of ousted President Hissene Habre.

Court upholds paddy trader's conviction, imprisonment
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THE Court of Appeal has upheld both conviction and 30 years imprisonment sentence imposed on a paddy trader, Robbin Jaffar, alias Mwatujobe, for robbing a businesswoman of money meant to purchase the cereal crop. “It is our judgment that this appeal ...

An Egyptian court has sentenced 230 people, including the prominent liberal activist Ahmed Douma, to life in prison for anti-government protests.