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Spiegel: German court to hear new claims over nuclear smuggling
Berlin - A court is to hear damning claims that a German engineer played a key role in an international nuclear trafficking gang set up by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadir Khan, the news magazine Der Spiegel said Saturday. It said the allegations were...

[Posted on : 2008-06-14 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Tribunal begins for alleged 'mastermind' of 9/11 attacks
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - The military tribunal of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants accused of organizing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks began Thursday at this remote US naval base in Cuba. Mohammed, believed to have once been al-...

[Posted on : 2008-06-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Bosnian court presses charges over Srebrenica genocide
Sarajevo - The prosecutor of the war crimes chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina's state court pressed charges Wednesday against Bosnian-Serb Vaso Todorovic, suspected of genocide during the country's 1992-95 war, the court said in a statement. According to...

[Posted on : 2008-06-04 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial set to begin
Washington - Legal proceedings against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are set to begin Thursday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the attacks, had been held in a s...

[Posted on : 2008-06-02 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

63 years jail for three Bosnian Serbs convicted of war crimes
Sarajevo - The War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina's State Court sentenced three Bosnian Serbs Friday to a total of 63 years jail for crimes during the country's 1992-1995 war. Dusko Knezevic was sentenced to 31 years, Zeljko Mejakic to 21 and M...

[Posted on : 2008-05-30 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Former Croatian general gets seven years for war crimes
Zagreb - A Croatian court on Friday sentenced a retired general to seven years in prison for war crimes against Serb civilians during Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence. Mirko Norac, 40, currently serving a 12-year prison term for a separate war c...

[Posted on : 2008-05-30 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Greek court postpones trial for French Olympics protestors
Athens - Greek judiciary workers on Thursday postponed the trial of three French protestors accused of disrupting the lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics until September. The trial was postponed due to a strike by judiciary workers in Greece. ...

[Posted on : 2008-05-29 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Woman lied about her virginity - French court annuls marriage
Paris - A court in the northern French city of Lille has annulled a marriage because the bride had misled her husband into believing that she was a virgin, French media reported on Thursday. The husband, a Muslim like his now ex-wife, decided to end ...

[Posted on : 2008-05-29 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

French serial killer handed maximum sentence - Summary
Paris - A court in the northern French city of Charleville- Mezieres found confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret guilty of murdering seven young women and gave him the maximum allowable sentence of life in prison with no possibility of early relea...

[Posted on : 2008-05-28 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Date set for court battle over fortune of Asia's richest woman
Hong Kong - A court date was set Wednesday for what is expected to be a spectacular and scandal-packed battle over the fortune of Asia's richest woman. The hearing into the 4.2 billion US dollar fortune of Nina Wang, who died aged 69 last year, leavi...

[Posted on : 2008-05-28 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

 



 

 


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