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Egyptian opposition leader detained pending forgery sentence

December 5, 2005 11:55:00 AM

Former Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour was detained on Monday, indicating that he may be sentenced soon on forgery charges. Nour's lawyer said that the court presiding over the trial ordered that Nour be detained until December...

November 28, 2005 08:10:00 AM

Over 100 Ugandan lawyers went on strike Monday to show displeasure with the Ugandan Attorney General and his involvement in possible military attempts to influence the trial of opposition leader Kizza Besigye . The Ugandan Law Society ...

November 25, 2005 11:03:00 AM

Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was formally charged with human rights violations Thursday and placed under house arrest on the heels of an unrelated indictment on corruption charges filed Wednesday on which he...

November 25, 2005 09:07:00 AM

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye , charged last week with treason by civilian prosecutors, was taken before a Ugandan military court Thursday to answer additional charges of terrorism and illegal firearms possession. Besignye, who had been...

November 24, 2005 07:43:00 AM

Leading Thursday's international brief, the Turkish Parliament has voted to investigate the grenade bombing of a former Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) member in the primarily Kurdish town of Semdinli. The attacker, an informant...

November 15, 2005 07:06:00 PM

A US district judge has denied bail for former KPMG executive David Greenberg, a defendant in the largest criminal tax case in US history. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Greenberg posed a substantial flight risk...

November 7, 2005 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...

October 21, 2005 07:26:00 AM

Rep. Tom DeLay will appear in an Austin courtroom Friday morning to answer charges that he helped funnel corporate donations to GOP candidates for the Texas Legislature in violation of Texas state law. The appearance...

October 13, 2005 11:42:00 AM

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for judges to require cash-only bonds pending trial. In a 4-3 ruling Wednesday, the court said that a 1993 decision that said that Ohio defendants...

October 7, 2005 01:04:00 PM

Former Adelphia Communications CEO John Rigas and his son, the company's former CFO, have been indicted for failing to pay $300 million in taxes, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Friday. The IRS has said...

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