A French criminal court on Monday sentenced six French aid workers, convicted in Chad for attempting to kidnap 103 African children, to eight years in French prison, agreeing with French prosecutors' recommendations to convert their sentences handed down by a court in Chad. The six were originally sentenced to eight years of hard labor in [...]

A Malaysian opposition leader released the third part of a video Monday that allegedly shows prominent Malaysian lawyer VK Lingam admitting to having bribed former Chief Justice Dzaiddin Abdullah. Abdullah was Chief Justice from 2000 to 2003. According to a press release from opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim accompanying the video, Lingam is quoted as saying, [...]

Miri Weingarten : "PHR-Israel has been immersed in the crisis that has engulfed Gaza since the takeover by Hamas in June 2007, and the resultant closing by Israel of all crossing points to goods and persons. Patients who prior to June had the possibility of accessing Egypt for medical care found this way barred from [...]

Neal A. Puckett : "The criminal justice system in America has certain checks and balances against overreaching by prosecutors when they bring felony charges. Some must simply file charges by information, which is then subject to a preliminary hearing before judge or magistrate who determines whether there is sufficient evidence to bind the defendant over [...]

Two former Iranian presidents and an ex-parliamentary speaker said Sunday that they plan to appeal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to overturn a ban prohibiting moderates and reformists in Iran from running in the March 2008 parliamentary election. Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami , a reformist, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , a pragmatic [...]

French authorities on Sunday ordered alleged "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel to be held for an additional 24 hours while police investigate the $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades Kerviel made while working for the French bank Societe Generale . Since news of the fraud – the largest bank fraud in history – broke on Thursday, [...]

Former Indonesian President Haji Mohammed Suharto died Sunday at age 86. Suharto, a former US Cold War ally, presided over what is considered to be one of the most brutal dictatorships of the 20th century with as many as one million political opponents killed during his time in power. Reaction across the country is split [...]

The Russian Central Election Commission issued a unanimous decision Sunday to ban former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov from running in the March presidential election. The Election Commission found that hundreds of thousands of signatures he had to submit in support of his candidacy were either forged or incorrect. Under Russian law, no more than 5 [...]

A Sudanese aid worker formerly held at Guantanamo Bay was among a group of ex-prisoners that demanded money and an apology from the US government Saturday for physical and mental torture they say they were subjected to at the prison. Adil Hassan Hamad, freed last December , told a conference in Khartoum that he and [...]

Jerome Kerviel, a former trader at the French bank Societe Generale , turned himself in to French police Saturday in connection with an investigation of what caused the bank to lose more than $7 billion. Kerviel has been accused of carrying out a scheme which amounted to the largest bank fraud in history. Societe Generale, [...]