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Hague court confirms receipt of Annan list on Kenya - Summary
TheHague - The Internatioanl Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Thursday confirmed receiving from former United Nations general secretary Kofi Annan a list of suspects behind the bloody rioting after the Kenya's 2007 presidential elections. The ICC...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Sweden to extradite suspected Rwandan war criminal - Summary
Stockholm - The Swedish government decided Thursday to extradite an alleged Rwandan war criminal to the East African country, becoming one of the first countries in the European Union to make such a move. Rwanda has called for Sylvere Ahorugeze's ext...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Singapore court sentences vice president of Mitsui Oil to jail
Singapore - A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced the former executive vice president of Japanese company Mitsui Oil (Asia) to 36 months in jail for aiding a scam that eventually cost the firm 81 million US dollars and led to its liquidation, media...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Hungarian banjo killer guilty of manslaughter
Wellington - A Hungarian tourist who killed a 69-year-old gay man with a banjo after he made homosexual advances was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in Auckland on Thursday. Ferdinand Ambach, 32, a dive master, was found not guilty on the more...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Saudi court convicts al-Qaeda militants
Riyadh - A special court in Riyadh has convicted 330 people in what was the first known Saudi trial of suspects accused of plotting terrorist attacks on behalf of al-Qaeda, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The accused were convicted of belonging to a ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Czech president ratifies International Criminal Court treaty
Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus Wednesday ratified a treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), a tribunal set up to punish war crimes and genocide, his office said. The Czech Republic was the last member of the 27-strong Europ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Karadzic's trial continues despite 'immunity' claim, court rules
Amsterdam - The trial against former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will continue despite claims by the defendant he was promised immunity, the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled on Wednesday. Karadzic, who was a...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Dutch government sued by newspaper over bugging of journalists
Amsterdam - The Netherland's biggest-selling newspaper, De Telegraaf, is to sue the government for allegedly wiretapping four of its journalists, the daily announced Wednesday. The decision to institute legal proceedings follows a raid authorised by ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Aung San Suu Kyi ready for resumption of her trial, lawyer says
Yangon - Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was briefed for two hours by her defence team Wednesday and is well prepared for her trial which is scheduled to resume on Friday, one of her lawyers said. Suu Kyi's defence team met with the Nobel peace la...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Top German court rejects Demjanjuk appeal - Summary
Karlsruhe, Germany - Germany's highest court rejected Wednesday a challenge by John Demjanjuk, 89, against his deportation in May from the United States to Germany. Demjanjuk is likely to be indicted in Munich next month on charges that he helped as ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

 

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