A Russian court Tuesday ordered the release on parole of Svetlana Bakhmina, the former lawyer for Russian oil firm OAS Yukos Oil Co. . Bakhmina was convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion in...
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Alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, captured by US forces following an attempted attack on the container ship Maersk Alabama , was charged Tuesday and will be tried as an adult following a ruling by federal...
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out the possibility of prosecuting lawyers responsible for authoring memos released last week outlining CIA interrogation policies. Obama had previously said that he would not...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases. In Safford United School District No. 1 v. Redding , the Court will consider...
A Spanish judge on Tuesday charged Jurdan Martitegi Lizaso , the alleged leader of the Basque separatist group ETA with murder for allegedly executing a car bomb in May 2008...
The lawyer for imprisoned US journalist Roxana Saberi on Tuesday appealed her recent conviction for espionage . A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary reportedly said that he hoped her eight-year sentence would be...
US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to deal with detainees at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes. McConnell, speaking before the...
Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of money laundering and embezzlement. Khodorkovsky made two statements to the court, one...
The US Supreme Court issued three opinions Tuesday. The Court ruled in Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi [Cornell LII backgrounder;...
Turkey's Eleventh Criminal Court in Ankara on Monday granted permission for a case involving the 2006 killing of a senior judge by lawyer Alparslan Aslan to be merged with a larger case against alleged Ergenekon coup leaders. Ergenekon is accused of planning to...
