Judicial Reform
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:54
A court in Azerbaijan on Monday sentenced three people to life in prison and another 26 to lengthy jail terms on charges of plotting attacks during the Eurovision Song Contest last year.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:46
Kuramshin had been appealing a 12-year prison sentence that he began serving last December after being found guilty of extortion.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:29
The trial opened Monday of two Tunisian rappers and a journalist accused of insulting public officials after another musician was convicted in June, with the verdict expected later in the day.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 08:16
A Saudi court has sentenced one man to death and another 19 to jail terms ranging from 18 months to 25 years for taking part in storming the U.S. consulate in Jeddah in 2004, killing nine, one of a series of al Qaeda attacks last decade.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 07:51
Those defendants headed towards the patrols keeping order at the entrance of the village Nweidrat intending to kill the policemen inside the patrol, which resulted in causing several burns for a policeman.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 07:43
They are accused of squandering some LE125 million from funds allocated for presidential palaces.
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 10:24
The Salafi-oriented Nour Party rejected an article which allows the trial of civilians before military courts in Egypt's draft constitution, saying it violates human rights conventions.
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 09:36
A key privilege deriving from Egypt's long period of military dictatorship, the right to try civilians in military courts, has been kept in the new constitution after a long battle within the formulating committee
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 09:01
A court in Bishkek has ordered opposition lawmaker Akmatbek Keldibekov to be held in pretrial detention for two months.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 08:50
The UN Security Council on Monday voted to continue policing measures off the coast of Somalia that have seen a notable decrease in attacks by pirates, unanimously renewing authorizations for international action against the gunmen.