Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: One year ago today, July 11, 2006, a day Indians call 7/11 (or 11/7), seven coordinated blasts within fifteen minutes tore through rail cars on Mumbai's suburban railway killing 187 people. Nineteen suspects are to stand trial for the blasts at the end of this month. Today [...]
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 Jordan's court-martial had committed unlawful command influence . Jordan, the only commissioned officer charged in connection with the Abu Ghraib [...]
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 the executive-controlled High Judicial Council, which will meet next week to discuss the case. The council can uphold, overrule or modify [...]
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. Kian Tajbakhsh , a consultant with the Open Society Institute, after obtaining new evidence supporting charges of [...]
The case of six foreign medics who were sentenced to death last year for infecting hundreds of children in a Libyan hospital with AIDS has been settled, according to the Gaddafi Foundation Tuesday. The announcement comes one day before the Libyan Supreme Court was scheduled to announce its verdict in the appellate trial for the [...]
The UK Foreign Office said Tuesday that Russia's refusal to extradite the primary suspect in the murder of British citizen and former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko was "unacceptable." Prime Minister Gordon Brown said his office was still considering how to respond to Russia's announcement Monday that it would not force Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi [...]
The Chicago jury in the federal fraud trial of Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black reported Tuesday that it was unable to render a unanimous decision on all counts against Black. The jurors sent a note to Judge Amy St. Eve of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois , [...]
A lawyer for US Army Spc. Mario Lozano , who is being tried in absentia for the murder of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari and attempted murders of agent Andrea Carpani and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena , told a Rome court Tuesday that Italy lacks jurisdiction in the case. In his opening remarks, Alberto Biffani [...]
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 or face €2,500 (US$3,425) in fines for every day of noncompliance. The ruling, made June 29 and originating from a [...]
The Serbian Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the 40 year prison sentence of Milorad Ulemek , according to Belgrade media reports. Ulemek was a paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic who was convicted of murdering former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic and attempting to murder former foreign minister and one time opposition leader Vuk Draskovic . Although the [...]
