Three men were sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for a 2002 attempt to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf . Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Hanif and Mohammad Ashraf, all thought to belong to the Harkut ul-Mujahideen al-Almi {MIPT backgrounder] terror group, were originally sentenced to 10 years each in 2003, but appealed their convictions. The Sindh [...]
A judge on one of Pakistan's anti-corruption Accountability Courts Tuesday dismissed charges against former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto following her December 27 assassination . Charges that Bhutto possessed assets beyond her known income, brought by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) , were rejected in light of her death. Corruption charges against Bhutto's former Director [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to step up deportation of illegal immigrants serving time in US prisons and jails during 2008, ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers said in an interview published Tuesday in the New York Times. Myers said ICE deported nearly 64,000 illegal immigrants who were serving time for criminal convictions [...]
Norway has agreed to extradite an unnamed Croatian citizen wanted for his alleged involvement in the 1991 Vukovar massacre to Serbia to face war crimes charges, Norwegian officials said Tuesday. Croatia had requested the man's extradition in 2006; Norwegian justice officials concluded after an investigation that there was sufficient evidence to warrant extraditing the man [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that fraud claims by investors are not permitted against third parties that did not directly mislead those investors. In Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. , the court held 5-3 that investors in cable company Charter Communications Inc. did not have the right to sue over fraudulent transactions [...]
Four ethnic Russian Estonians accused of taking part in violence that occurred last year during the removal of a Red Army war memorial in Tallinn went on trial in Estonia Monday. The violence occurred last April when Estonia removed the prominent yet controversial Bronze Soldier from the capital city and more than 1,000 ethnic Russians [...]
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers , will probably head the new UK Supreme Court when it opens in 2009, the Times reported Monday. The new top court, created by the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005 , will technically replace the judicial panel of the House of Lords [...]
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the clandestine branch of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , will not appear at a closed congressional hearing later this week, his lawyer said Monday, indicating he had been excused because he would refuse to answer [...]
Investigating judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) met with former low-level Khmer Rouge members Tuesday in an effort to secure their cooperation with the court's mission. ECCC judges assured the former Khmer Rouge cadres that the court's mandate only permits prosecutions against high-level Khmer Rouge figures; many former members have [...]
Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) members said Monday that Pakistan's lawyers will relax their ongoing boycott of the post-emergency judiciary to Thursday of every week and one hour of every day, because the backlog caused by their 12-week boycott was creating hardship for civil litigants and criminal defendants. The PBC said it continued to support ousted [...]
