1.   Last year, three former East German leaders were sentenced to prison after judges ruled that they had approved orders to shoot fleeing refugees.

2.   The attacks came after an accused gang leader was sentenced to six years in prison.

3.   The stock market had closed for the day before the business leaders were sentenced.

4.   A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced the leader of the only legal pro-Kurdish party to one year in prison for suggesting the formation of an independent Kurdish state.

5.   A Ukrainian court on Friday sentenced leaders of the doomsday White Brotherhood religious sect to prison terms for inciting mass disorder and seizing state property.

6.   A Ukrainian court on Friday sentenced leaders of the White Brotherhood, a doomsday religious sect, to prison for inciting mass disorder.

7.   A Yugoslav court sentenced the leader of a Bulgarian minority group to eight months in prison Wednesday, Bulgarian state radio reported.

8.   Although its leaders have been sentenced to jail terms in the past, they have always been suspended.

9.   An Azerbaijani court sentenced four leaders of a religious Islamic political party to long prison terms Monday for spying for Iran.

10.   He said Kabila was using military courts originally intended to deal with crimes committed by soldiers to try and sentence opposition leaders.