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Photo courtesy of martincasas.org Dying ex-Black Panther freed after 40 years in solitary A terminally ill former Black Panther, who spent 40 years in solitary confinement for murder, was set free Tuesday after a judge reversed his controversial 1974 conviction for murder.
02 октября 2013
Amanda Knox. ©Reuters/Brendan McDermid Knox, ex-lover retrial for Italy murder begins The retrial of Amanda Knox and her former lover for the murder of a British student begins in Florence on Monday, though she has decided not to attend.
30 сентября 2013
Jackson v AEG jury mulls verdict for second day The jury tasked with deciding if tour promoters AEG Live should pay massive damages to Michael Jackson's family over his 2009 death resumed deliberations.
28 сентября 2013
Mukhtar Ablyazov. ©RIA Novosti French court postpones decision on Ablyazov's release motion French court has postponed its decision on the motion to release former chairman of BTA bank Mukhtar Ablyazov on bail.
27 сентября 2013
Li Tianyi and his father Li Shuangjiang, a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. ©Reuters China court jails general's son for decade over gang rape A court sentenced the teenage son of a Chinese general to 10 years in jail for gang rape on Thursday, court authorities said, after his trial threw a spotlight on the lives of China's elite.
26 сентября 2013
Jackson lawyer attacks promoter as trial nears climax The promoters of Michael Jackson's last tour were "so excited" about making huge profits that they hired an unfit doctor for the star, his family's lawyer said Tuesday in closing arguments.
25 сентября 2013
©Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh Egypt court bans all Muslim Brotherhood activities An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, in the latest blow to the Islamist movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
25 сентября 2013
Argentine Roman Catholic priest Julio Cesar Grassi. ©Reuters/Marcos Brindicci Argentine pedophile priest begins 15-year jail sentence A well-known Argentine priest began a 15-year prison sentence for pedophilia Monday, four years after he was convicted.
24 сентября 2013
Facebook 'Like' button is free speech right: US court Hitting the "Like" button on Facebook is an element of free speech protected by the US constitution, a federal court ruled, in a case closely watched by employment lawyers.
20 сентября 2013
Performers pay tribute to Bob Marley. ©Reuters/Mike Blake US court revives lawsuit over Bob Marley recordings A US appeals court Wednesday revived legal action between music giant Universal and a small media company over rights to distribute remixes of early recordings by reggae icon Bob Marley.
19 сентября 2013
Uncertainty over handover of Kadhafi son for pre-trial The son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi was due to appear at a pre-trial hearing with more than 30 others in Tripoli Thursday although doubts remained whether his ex-rebel captors would allow him to attend.
19 сентября 2013
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa walks close to a contaminated oil pool, said to be caused by Chevron-Texaco. ©Reuters/Guillermo Granja Chevron wins partial victory in Ecuador pollution case An arbitration panel in the Hague has given US oil firm Chevron an important procedural victory in its battle against a $19 billion fine by Ecuador for polluting the Amazon basin region.
19 сентября 2013
Bangladesh top court orders senior Islamist to hang Bangladesh's top court Tuesday sentenced to death a senior Islamist opposition official for murder during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.
17 сентября 2013
Historic child abuse inquiry opens in Australia An Australian inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began public hearings, with warnings.
16 сентября 2013
Representatives for Veenzuela, lawyers Luis Britto (L), German Saltron (C) and Manuel Galindo attend the public hearing for the case Brewer Carias vs Venezuela in the Inter-American Court of Human Rig Venezuela quits regional human rights court Venezuela withdrew from a regional human rights court on Tuesday, fulfilling the wishes of late president Hugo Chavez to the dismay of activists who fear the state may commit abuses.
12 сентября 2013
William Ruto sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court. ©REUTERS/Lex van Lieshout/Pool Kenya braces for crimes against humanity trials Kenya's vice president appears at the world court at The Hague this week for a crimes against humanity trial that could plunge the East African nation back into political chaos.
09 сентября 2013
Chile's top court acknowledges Pinochet-era failures Chile's Supreme Court took for the first time Friday recognized its "omissions" during Augusto Pinochet's brutal 1973 to 1990 dictatorship, but it declined to apologize to victims and their relatives.
08 сентября 2013
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem. ©REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian Argentine ex-president Menem back on trial at 83 Argentina's ex-president Carlos Menem was back in court for a new trial Monday, this time for allegedly falsifying his personal tax returns.
04 сентября 2013
Nidal Hasan. ©REUTERS US court martial sentences Fort Hood shooter to death A military jury sentenced a US Army officer to death Wednesday for carrying out an Al-Qaeda inspired mass shooting on the Fort Hood base in Texas that left 13 dead.
29 августа 2013
Colombian court gives green light for ex-rebels to take part in politics Colombia's constitutional court on Wednesday approved a reform that will enable rebels who lay down their arms after a peace process to take part in political life.
29 августа 2013

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