Uzbek court sentences police, soldiers, doctors for negligence in Andijan uprising
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, soldiers, and prison doctors to jail terms ranging from 1.5 to 11 years for their complicity in the May uprising in Andijan [JURIST...
Pinochet fingerprints, mug shot taken by Chile police as rights case proceeds
Chilean police have taken fingerprints and a mug shot of former dictator Augusto Pinochet as part of his indictment over Operation Colombo , in which at least 119 dissidents were allegedly murdered during...
Russian parliamentary commission blames police for Beslan school siege
Alexander Torshin, the head of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's Beslan school siege told the upper house of parliament Wednesday that despite their exoneration by prosecutors earlier this week,...
Serbia close to finding war crimes fugative Mladic, sources say
A Serbian security official said Tuesday that Serb police had intercepted a cell phone conversation involving Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic , the strongest lead police have thusfar developed in...
Kuwait court sentences 6 Islamists to death for 2005 clash; jails Australian
A Kuwaiti court Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants to death for their involvement in a January 2005 clash with police that left several people dead. All the men were members of the Peninsula Lions Brigades, a fundamentalist group linked...
Russian prosecutors blame Beslan siege deaths on terrorists, not authorities
Russian prosecutors leading the probe into the September 2004 Beslan school siege issued a report Monday concluding that Chechen terrorists, not Russian authorities, were to blame for the deaths of 330 people, mostly children. Another...
Mladic in surrender talks with Hague war crimes court: report
Former Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is reported to be discussing his surrender with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , according...
Libya high court vacates death sentences in Bulgarian AIDS case, orders retrial
Libya's Supreme Court Sunday disposed of the death-by-firing-squad sentences given to five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed since 1999 and convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus . The case was sent...
Bangladesh plans new anti-terror law after Islamist court bombings
In response to a series of deadly bombings in recent months, the government of Bangladesh plans to introduce a new anti-terrorist law to counter Islamist militants. The attacks, aimed at judges, lawyers, police and journalists, have killed...
Adel Yahya, a 23-year old student, appeared in a London court Friday after being charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000 with conspiracy to cause explosions in connection with his alleged role in planning a failed series of...
