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London police subway shooting trial begins
London's Metropolitan Police Service mistakenly killed Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes '[advocacy website; BBC profile] because of a flawed plan to carry out an anti-terrorism operation after the July 21 London transit bombing attempts i (More) |
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UK counter-terror official misled public about subway shooting of Brazilian: report
The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued a report Thursday on the shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes [advocacy website; BBC profile], an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist by police in July 2005, clearing L (More) |
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Brazil court issues Berezovsky arrest warrant for money laundering
The Brazilian federal court has issued an arrest warrant for exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive] on charges of money laundering, Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reported Friday. Brazil also asked I (More) |
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US human trafficking report cites Islamic states for inaction
The US State Department Tuesday cited the governments of 16 countries, including 11 predominantly Islamic states, for not making a "significant effort to combat human trafficking" in its annual report on modern-day slavery around the wor (More) |
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London police avoid disciplinary action in subway shooting of Brazilian
Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Friday that 11 Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers will not face disciplinary action for the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man two weeks after the July 2005 London transit (More) |
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Absolute disregard for law: liquidating the Russian Chechen Friendship Society
Oksana Chelysheva : "On 23 January 2007 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision of the Regional Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate our organization, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. We were originally ord (More) |
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Family of Brazilian mistakenly killed by London police after bombings loses appeal
The UK High Court on Thursday rejected an appeal brought by the family of a Brazilian man who was shot and killed by London police two weeks after the July 2005 London transit bombings when police mistook him for alleged terrorist Hussain Osman (More) |
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Iraq ranked among most corrupt countries in annual survey
Iraq, Haiti, Guinea, and Myanmar rank as the world's most corrupt nations in 2006 according to the latest annual Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index [corruption index; press release] released Monday. The report shows a strong (More) |
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Family of Brazilian man shot by London police appeal decision not to charge officers
The family of a Brazilian man who was shot and killed by London police filed an appeal Monday with the UK High Court challenging a July decision by prosecutors not to bring individual charges against the police officers involved in the shooting. (More) |
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London police plead not guilty in subway shooting of Brazilian
The London Metropolitan Police pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges under the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act [text; backgrounder] for "failing to provide for the health, safety and welfare" of the public in causing the de (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
