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Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia has been sentenced to seven additional years in prison after she was found guilty on Monday of embezzling USD $375,000 that was supposed to go to a charity fund. The petition to extend Zia’s sentence was filed earlier this month, with the prosecution stating that because Zia was not [...]

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Ireland formally ruled in a unanimous decision on Friday that the complete employment ban on asylum seekers was unconstitutional. UN Commissioner for...

Bangladesh's Fifth Special Judge's Court of Dhaka found former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia guilty of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison on Thursday. She was convicted of embezzling close to USD $250,000 in donations for...

The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn't get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. A new law took effect in Iceland Monday, making it...

A Bangladesh court on Wednesday granted bail to former prime minister Khaleda Zia in 10 pending cases, allowing her to go free. Zia, the head of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , is facing charges...

Authorities in Bangladesh detained approximately 1,600 people between Thursday and Friday in efforts to find and detain radical Islamist militants. Police suspect only 37 of the detainees are more than petty criminals, none of whom are believed to...

Bangladesh's minister of law on Sunday told the press that the arrest of a well-known magazine editor, Shafik Rahman, was not politically motivated. Recently, Rahman was named the convener of the international affairs committee for the opposition Bangladesh National...

Former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia surrendered on Tuesday to a court after an arrest warrant was issued against her in connection with the firebombing bus attack last year staged in opposition of the...

A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for former prime minister Khaleda Zia in connection with the firebombing of a bus orchestrated against the government last year. In addition to Zia, the court...

India's high court on Thursday expressed concern over law and order following widespread protests over the arrest of a student leader for sedition. Kanhaiya Kumar, the head of the student union at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, was arrested ...