Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wrote Monday that proposed amendments designed to suspend older trials for nonviolent crimes would allow the judiciary to consider more important cases [Senate letter, in...
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The trial of British national Simon Mann , accused of participating in a 2004 coup attempt against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo , began Tuesday in Malabo. Government officials charged ...
Russia will not recognize the new Kosovar constitution because it is illegal, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation announced Monday. The Assembly of Kosovo adopted the constitution in April,...
The district court in The Hague Monday began hearing the first civil action against the Dutch State for the actions of its peacekeeping troops during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The...
A man accused of hacking US government computers in 2001 and 2002 appealed to the judicial panel of the UK House of Lords Monday, arguing that his extradition to the US would violate his...
The government of Bangladesh plans to release certain inmates who have served half their prison sentences in order to reduce the country's overcrowded prison populations, Bangladeshi officials said Monday. The prisoner release plan comes...
Officials from Pakistani co-ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will soon present an impeachment motion against President Pervez Musharraf, a PML-N MP told a National Assembly meeting Sunday. PML-N and coalition partner Pakistan People's Party...
The British military has held the last two Iraqis in its custody without charge or access to lawyers for five years, similar to US detentions at Guantanamo, lawyers for the men alleged in a report published in the Independent...
Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan told the Associated Press Sunday that despite the end of the "long march" the country's lawyers' movement will continue protesting for the reinstatement of...
The top judge in South Africa's Cape High Court accused judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Friday of political bias after they filed a complaint with the country's judicial disciplinary body earlier this...
