Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody on Tuesday for questioning regarding allegations of misuse of influence and illegal campaign financing. Specifically, anti-corruption investigators are looking into whether Sarkozy used his...
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Europe rights court: criminal conviction for Armenian genocide denial unjustified
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that prosecutions for denying that the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide are an attack on freedom of expression....
The investigation into allegations that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy exploited L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating illicit election campaign funds has been dropped, according to Monday reports. Bettencourt's accountant...
France ex-president Sarkozy to be investigated for campaign funds fraud
A French appeals court ruled Tuesday that an investigation may proceed into allegations that former president Nicolas Sarkozy exploited aging L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating election campaign funds. A...
France's Constitutional Council on Friday approved a same-sex marriage bill . The legislation was approved by parliament last month, but former president Nicolas...
French President Francois Hollande announced on Saturday that he plans a new law that would make it a crime to deny the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide. The...
The first legal complaint against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was filed on Monday for his alleged involvement in the French sale of submarines to Pakistan in the 1990s. Olivier Morice, the lawyer acting...
A group of minorities in France has filed a lawsuit alleging police searches are conducted on the basis of racial profiling, according to a statement made by their lawyers and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on...
UN commission reports war crimes by both sides of Libya conflict
The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Libya submitted its findings on Friday, reporting that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by both sides of the recent Libyan conflict . Established in February 2011...