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Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty of complicity in the murder of the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced "in absentia" to life imprisonment. Compaoré has been in exile in Ivory Coast ever since resigning to the presidency following the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising.
2022-04-6

The lawyer for American journalist Danny Fenster says that Myanmar's authorities have charged him with terrorism and sedition, in addition to three charges that he had already been facing. Fenster's lawyer says that, under counterterrorism law, Fenster could face life imprisonment.
2021-11-10

A Turkish court sentences ISIL militant Abdulkadir Masharipov to life imprisonment, plus an additional 1,368 years in prison, for killing 39 people and injuring 79 more at an Istanbul nightclub in 2017.
2020-09-7

A court in the Philippines finds 28 people, including former Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. and his brother, former Governor Zaldy Ampatuan, guilty of murder for their roles in the Maguindanao massacre, and sentences them to life imprisonment (40 years).
2019-12-19

Millionaire Italian yacht businessman Giulio Lolli is convicted of terrorism in Libya and sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripoli. Lolli is wanted for fraud in Italy, and his Italian lawyer says the Libyan legal case appears to be based on Lolli using a yacht to evacuate fighters from Tripoli.
2019-09-25

Former Philippine Army general and politician Jovito Palparan is convicted for the kidnapping and disappearance of students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño. He and two other associates are sentenced to life imprisonment.
2018-09-17

Ling Jihua, former top aide to paramount leader Hu Jintao, is sentenced to life in prison for illegally obtaining state secrets and taking over $11 million in bribes. Ling's misfortunes started when he was accused of trying to cover up a scandal connected to his 23-year-old son's deadly crash in a Ferrari in 2012.
2016-07-4

Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the 2013 murder of United States Navy SEALs' sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
2015-02-24

A court in Bahrain upholds the sentences of Arab Spring opposition figures condemned for plotting to overthrow the Western-allied government. Eight of the twenty opponents are confirmed imprisoned for life.
2012-09-4

88-year-old Heinrich Boere, a former member of the Nazi SS, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians after six decades of legal wrangling.
2010-03-23