Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is concerned about the imposition of the death penalty against journalism student Sayad Parwez Kambaksh but will not intervene in the case pending Kambaksh's appeal, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday. Under Article 64 of the Afghanistan Constitution , Afghanistan's president may reduce penalties and grant pardons in accordance with provisions of [...]
A federal judge on Monday upheld a jury verdict finding Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church guilty of intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy for staging a protest at the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder . Judge Richard Bennett of the US District Court for the District of Maryland [...]
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 charged in January with "inciting subversion of state power." Lu's lawyer says they plan to appeal the [...]
A federal district court on Monday rejected the Bush administration's attempt to exempt the US Navy from environmental laws so that the Navy could continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the coast of southern California. Last month, President Bush issued a memorandum exempting the Navy from the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) [...]
Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary , accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Khmer Rouge communist regime of the 1970s, was hospitalized Monday for a urinary tract problem. A spokesman for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) said that this was the second time in [...]
Lawyers representing the families of 17 US Navy personnel killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole have filed court papers asking US District Judge Robert G. Doumar of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to reopen their lawsuit against the government of Sudan, according to Monday media [...]
A UK jury Monday sentenced five men to prison terms ranging from seven to 17 years for aiding the perpetrators of the failed July 21, 2005 bomb attacks on London's transit system evade arrest. Ismail Abdurahman, Muhedin Ali, Siraj Ali, Wahbi Mohammed, and Abdul Sherif were collectively convicted of 22 charges of assisting an offender [...]
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday called for Kenya to establish a truth and reconciliation commission in hopes of soothing underlying social and ethnic pressures that erupted into violence in the wake of January's disputed presidential election . Annan is currently in the country to help mediate the conflict between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and [...]
Four Kurds accused in Syria of separatism were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by Syria's Supreme State Security Court (SSSC), independent rights group National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said Monday. Two of the men, Hamid Suleiman Mohammed and Adnan Muwaymesh, were sentenced to 10 years, while Ibrahim Haj Yussef and [...]
A lawyer for British national Simon Mann , alleged to have plotted a coup against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004, accused Zimbabwean officials Monday of criminal conspiracy to kidnap after Mann was reportedly deported to Equatorial Guinea in secret before his appeal process against extradition was completed, according to the Guardian [...]
