A Chinese court convicted dissident writer Lu Gengsong on subversion charges Tuesday, sentencing Lu to four years in prison for writing essays exposing corruption within the Communist Party of China (CPC) . Lu was arrested last October and...
The European Commission (EC) said Monday that new EU members Bulgaria and Romania must do more to achieve judicial reform and fight corruption and organized crime. An interim report on Bulgaria criticized Bulgarian efforts...
The Moscow City Court on Monday rejected the appeal of exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky . Berezovsky has been sentenced to six years in prison, after being found guilty last November of embezzling...
A Spanish court on Monday ordered the release of 10 suspected terrorists accused of participating in a plot to bomb the Spanish National Court in Madrid, several days before the court is scheduled to announce the verdicts and sentences...
Moroccan authorities have arrested Abdelilah Hriz, an alleged participant in the 2004 Madrid train bombings , a Spanish judicial source said Monday. Hriz, whose DNA and fingerprints linked him to a house where explosives were prepared and...
The Syrian government has detained former parliamentarian and dissident Riyad Sayf , the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria (NOHR) said Tuesday. Sayf is a prominent member of the "Damascus Declaration" group, which in 2005 issued a...
Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings have filed a second appeal with the Indonesian Supreme Court, a spokesperson for the Indonesian attorney general's office said Tuesday. The...
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced political science professor Atilla Yayla Monday for "insulting the legacy" of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey. Yayla was charged last March after suggesting in a November 2006 speech that...
The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Omri Sharon to reduce his seven-month prison sentence, saying that it found no reason to lighten Sharon's sentence after a lower court...
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...
