UN Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa Monday opened a week-long UN anti-corruption conference in Bali with a plea that nations take serious steps to enforce the United...
A French bill aimed at reducing violent crimes committed by repeat offenders violates international fair trial standards , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday. The proposed law, sponsored by the administration of French President Nicolas Sarkozy [official profile;...
The Bush administration warned Democratic leaders over the weekend that US President George W. Bush will veto any attempt to extend the temporary Protect America Act beyond its February 1 expiration date that does not...
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced political science professor Atilla Yayla Monday for "insulting the legacy" of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey. Yayla was charged last March after suggesting in a November 2006 speech that...
French prosecutors asked a judge to file preliminary charges on Monday against alleged "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel in connection with what is being called the largest bank fraud in history. Prosecutors asked for preliminary charges of forgery,...
The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Omri Sharon to reduce his seven-month prison sentence, saying that it found no reason to lighten Sharon's sentence after a lower court...
Several prominent Indonesian lawyers told AFP on Monday that a civil corruption case against former Indonesian President Haji Mohammed Suharto could continue after Suharto's death on Sunday. Suharto, who ruled Indonesia as...
A French criminal court on Monday sentenced six French aid workers, convicted in Chad for attempting to kidnap 103 African children, to eight years in French prison, agreeing with French prosecutors' recommendations to convert their...
A Malaysian opposition leader released the third part of a video Monday that allegedly shows prominent Malaysian lawyer VK Lingam admitting to having bribed former Chief Justice Dzaiddin Abdullah. Abdullah was Chief Justice from 2000...
Two former Iranian presidents and an ex-parliamentary speaker said Sunday that they plan to appeal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to overturn a ban prohibiting moderates and reformists in Iran from running in...