US District Judge John Walter of the Central District of California on Monday sentenced former Milberg Weiss partner William Lerach to two years in prison for his part in the firm's illegal kickback scheme . Lerach...

A former Chinese-American engineer at Boeing was arrested Monday for allegedly stealing corporate trade secrets related to the Space Shuttle and other aerospace programs and turning them over to China . Dongfan...

An Egyptian appeals court Monday overturned the jail sentence of an Al Jazeera television reporter convicted for her role in producing a film on police torture. Howayda Taha was tried in May 2007;...

Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky ended a nearly two-week long hunger strike Monday as former Yukos executive and lawyer Vasily Aleksanian was confirmed to have been transferred to...

Estonia has signed an enforcement of sentences agreement with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to allow ICTY convicts to be held in Estonian prisons, the ICTY announced [press...

Former Congolese Nationalist and Integrationist Front leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui on Monday appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for the first time. The public hearing allowed judges to verify Ngudjolo Chui's...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda Monday urged the international community and Interpol to ignore arrest warrants issued last week for 40 Rwandan military officers by Spanish National Court Judge...

Two opposition groups in Myanmar, the 88 Generation Students and the National League for Democracy (NLD) , on Monday urged citizens to reject a proposed constitutional referendum put forth by Myanmar's military government. In a...

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Monday launched a new nationwide boycott of the courts to protest President Pervez Musharraf's November ouster of Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and to demand...

A multi-party coalition of Japanese parliamentarians said Monday that they have drafted a bill proposing a four-year moratorium on the death penalty and giving convicts already on death row life sentences without the possibility of parole. The bill is...