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Saddam trial lawyer's assistant found murdered
Defense lawyer Badih Aref Izzat, representing a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial , announced Thursday that his assistant had been found murdered in Baghdad. Abdel Monem Yassin Hussein is said to have been kidnapped on August 29 and was fou (More) |
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Indonesia court sentences 2005 Bali bomber to 18 years in prison
An Indonesian court Thursday sentenced Islamic militant Dwi Widiarto to 18 years in prison for his part in the October 2005 bombings of three restaurants in Bali which killed 26 people. Widiarto was charged with videotaping the three suicide bomber (More) |
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Former Illinois governor sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for corruption
US District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer Wednesday sentenced former Illinois Governor George Ryan [Wikipedia profile; defense website] to 6 1/2 years imprisonment after dropping 2 of the 18 counts against him, holding that there was not enough evidence t (More) |
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International brief ~ Rwanda parliament to vote on abolishing death penalty
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama has confirmed that the Rwandan Parliament would be presented a bill in December aimed at abolishing capital punishment in the African nation. The legislation, (More) |
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Death penalty recommended for US soldiers accused of murdering Iraqi detainees
A US Army investigator has recommended that four US soldiers face the death penalty if they are convicted on charges of murdering Iraqi detainees according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the report Saturday. Lt. Col. James P. Da (More) |
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US will not seek death penalty against Marine in Hamdania killing
The US government will not pursue the death penalty against US Marine Corps Pfc. John Jodka III in the death of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania, according to a military prosecutor during Article 32 [JAG backgrounder; UCMJ text] hearings Wednesday to (More) |
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Marines accused in Hamdania killing face preliminary hearings
The US Marine Corps Wednesday held separate hearings preliminary to possible court-martial at Camp Pendleton , California, for two of the eight American soldiers, including seven Marines and one Navy corpsman, charged with the April 26 murder and (More) |
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Libya AIDS trial prosecutor calls for death penalty for Bulgarian nurses
The prosecutor in the Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, on Tuesday called for the death penalty in the case. The trial resumed on May (More) |
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US assures Australia that Hicks will not face death penalty in new military trial
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told Australian TV Saturday that he has received assurances from the US government that it will not seek the death penalty in an anticipated new military trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David H (More) |
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Kurd survivors of Anfal gas attack testify as Saddam genocide trial continues
Witness testimony began Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation that led to the killings of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in th (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
