|
|
|
|
BBC News
--
One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
A South African court on Monday postponed the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of abusing students at a school set up by Oprah Winfrey. A lawyer acting for Tiny Virginia Makopo said he needed more time to consult with his client. She is charged..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
A trial has begun of 12 people who are accused of involvement in a slave labour scandal in illegal mines and brick factories in northern China.
Among those who went on trial on Wednesday are kiln boss Wang Bingbing and foreman Heng Tinghan, state news..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Members of the feared religious police in Saudi Arabia are for the first time due to stand trial over the deaths in their custody of two men.
The deaths, which occurred a few weeks ago, sparked a media uproar, leading to calls for a re-evaluation of th..
Read More
|
|
|
Guardian Unlimited
--
An alleged accomplice of one of Britain's most powerful convicted terrorists appeared in court today as the "last remaining member" of the team to face trial.
Qaisar Shaffi was one of seven people assisting Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for at least 40..
Read More
|
|
|
News.com.au
--
TWO Sudanese women were sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after a trial in which they had no lawyer and which used Arabic, not their first language, the rights group Amnesty International said.
Sadia Idriss Fadul was sentenced on February 13 a..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
An Italian judge has ordered 26 US citizens - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Osama Mustafa Hassan was allegedly seized by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Se..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
Prosecutors in the Madrid train bombing case will seek prison terms of about 38,000 years for each of the seven prime defendants in the trial due to start next February, according to a prosecution order released Monday and viewed by CNN...
Read More
|
|
|
Al Jazeera
--
Iraq has put its security forces on alert and is also expected to impose curfew in Baghdad and three other provinces ahead of Sunday's verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein...
Read More
|
|
|
Houston Chronicle
--
Witnesses at Saddam Hussein's genocide trial on Tuesday gave harrowing accounts of surviving killing fields where Iraqi soldiers executed Kurdish prisoners in sprays of gunfire and dumped their bodies in mass graves...
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
The president of the region surrounding the Italian city of Naples is going on trial with 27 others, over the city's ongoing rubbish crisis.
Antonio Bassolino, the president of Campania, is charged with defrauding the state and abuse of office. He has..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who died of a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. Hundreds of family members packed the courtroom where the def..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
The trial of a man accused of killing five prostitutes in the southeastern England town of Ipswich began Monday. Steve Wright, 49, was charged with the murders following a massive police investigation involving the cooperation of up to 40 separate police..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Six French nationals accused of trying to kidnap 103 children have gone on trial in the Chad capital, N'Djamena.
The staff from the Zoe's Ark charity held hands as they arrived at court, amid tight security.
Zoe's Ark says the children were orphans..
Read More
|
|
|
MSNBC
--
The jury in the case of a pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer resumed deliberations late Thursday after the judge clarified a portion of his instructions.
Deliberations were suspended for about two hours following a question passed..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
A Spanish court has delivered its first guilty verdicts in the trial of suspects in the Madrid train bombings of March 2004.
Moroccan Jamal Zougam and Spaniard Emilio Trashorras were found guilty of murder in the initial verdicts.
Rabei Osman Sayed..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
A Spanish court has found the first of 28 defendants guilty in the 2004 commuter train bombings that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 more than three years ago. Eight of the defendants are prime suspects in the bombings and charged with murde..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
A man has gone on trial in Moscow accused of killing at least 49 people.
The Russian media has dubbed him the "Bitsevsky Maniac" after the park in southern Moscow where most of the murders were carried out.
The accused man, Alexander Pichushkin, far..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
The US jury in the $60m fraud trial of media tycoon Lord Black has said it is unable to reach a unanimous verdict and asked the judge for advice.
Lord Black is on trial in Chicago accused of 11 charges of fraud, one count of obstruction of justice, and..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Liberia's former President Charles Taylor has appeared at his war crimes trial in The Hague for the first time.
Wearing a blue suit and a yellow tie, Mr Taylor, 59, turned up after the judge had explained why his trial would again be delayed - until 20..
Read More
|
|
