Belgian students convicted for deadly hazing ritual.
Eighteen Belgian students have been found guilty for their role in the 2018 death of a freshman university student during a brutal and degrading initiation ritual and were sentenced to community service and fines. Sanda Dia was 20 when he died in a hospital in December 2018 after he, and two other first-year students, endured two days of vicious hazing to enter an elite student fraternity, Reuzegom. The students were found guilty for their role in the involuntary death of Dia and degrading treatment, but were acquitted of intentionally administering harmful substances resulting in death and wilful neglect.