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International court appoints defence counsel for Karadzic
The Hague - British-born lawyer Richard Harvey was appointed defence counsel for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Karadzic's war crimes trial, an international court in The Hague announced on Friday. In its decision to appoint Harvey, t...

[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Israeli High Court rules that private prisons harm inmates' rights
Jerusalem - In a ground-breaking decision, Israel's High Court ruled Thursday against the privatization of prisons, overturning a 2004 amendment to the law that allowed prisons to be privately-run and operated. Expressing the majority opinion of the ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Lula has final say in Battisti's extradition
Brasilia - It's up to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to decide whether leftist Cesare Battisti, a suspect in four murders in the 1970s, is to be extradited to Italy. The Supreme Court approved the extradition on Wednesday. It then rule...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Dissident handed over to China by Hong Kong goes on trial
Hong Kong - A former Tiananmen Square dissident who was handed over to mainland Chinese police by Hong Kong a year ago, has gone on trial Sichuan province, Hong Kong radio news said Thursday. Zhou Yongjun, 42, a student leader in the 1989 pro-democra...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Russian court issues capital punishment ban beyond January 1
Moscow - Russia's constitutional court ruled Thursday that no death sentences may be carried out even after a moratorium on capital punishment expires January 1, the Interfax agency reported. The St. Petersburg-based court's chief judge Valery Sorkin...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Lao lawmakers debate tobacco law
Vientiane, Laos - Lao legislators are preparing to pass the country's first cigarette-control bill, in keeping with anti-smoking campaigns worldwide, media reports said Thursday. Minister of Public Health Ponmek Dalaloy presented a draft law at the N...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Dubai court receives first Facebook libel case
Dubai - A court of misdemeanours in Dubai is hearing a case involving the alleged abuse of the social networking site Facebook for unlawful acts, in what is believed to be the first such charge in the country, media reports said Wednesday. A Lebanese...

[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

US has observer status at International Criminal Court meeting
The Hague - For the first time in 10 years, a US delegation is attending the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Wednesday. Stephen Rapp, the US' new war crimes ambassador and former chief prosecutor of the Special Cour...

[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Former Nazi guard charged with 58 WWII murders
Berlin - Prosecutors in Germany have charged a 90-year-old man who had been a member of the Nazi guard unit, the SS, with the murder of 58 Jewish forced labourers at the end of the second world war. A special Nazi war-crimes prosecution unit said the...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Neo-Nazi radio DJs appear before Berlin court
Berlin - Five men and two women appeared before a Berlin court Monday, accused of running an internet radio station that propagated hatred against punks, Jews, foreigners and communists, justice officials said. The accused, ranging from 20 to 36 year...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

 

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