A US military judge Tuesday refused to dismiss charges stemming from the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal against US Army Lt. Col. Steven Lee Jordan , rejecting a defense motion that the superior officer who ordered...
The Libyan Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of six foreign medics accused of knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients with the HIV virus. The court's decision will now be considered by...
Iranian judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi said Tuesday that government prosecutors have expanded their investigations against Iranian-American scholars Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Dr....
The Brussels Court of First Instance has ruled that a Belgian internet service provider (ISP) must filter or block illegal peer-to-peer music downloading , giving Scarlet Extended Ltd six months to comply with its order...
The Defense Support Section (DSS) of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) opened the application process for defense lawyers Tuesday, seeking Cambodian and foreign lawyers with at least...
The government of the Philippines Tuesday rejected a request by the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) that the 2007 Human Security Act be revisited , as Filipino presidential spokesperson Ignacio Bunye said the controversial law...
British Judge Adrian Fulford Tuesday discharged the jury in the trial of suspects implicated in the failed bomb attacks on London's subway and bus systems on July 21, 2005, after jurors indicated they were deadlocked in...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales received reports that the FBI had improperly used national security letters (NSL) prior to testifying before Congress in 2005 that "there has not been...
David J. Bershad , former name partner at leading class action law firm Milberg Weiss , pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to obstruct justice in a plot in which Milberg Weiss allegedly paid up to...
The court-martial of US Marine Corps Cpl. Trent D. Thomas for his alleged role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania began Monday, with the prosecutor asking...
