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Harare -
Police in Zimbabwe have taken the unusual step of summoning the country's information minister for questioning in the case of a state newspaper editor charged with subversion.
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by AFP
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Washington -
The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die.
In the Media
by Chantal Valery (AFP)
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Strasbourg -
Europe's top human rights court condemned Poland on Thursday for hosting secret CIA prisons on its territory, saying Warsaw knowingly abetted unlawful imprisonment and torture of Guantanamo-bound detainees.
In the Media
by AFP
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Phoenix -
America's death penalty debate raged Thursday after it took nearly two hours for authorities in Arizona to execute a prisoner who lost a Supreme Court battle challenging the experimental lethal drug cocktail.
In the Media
by Chantal Valery (AFP)
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London -
Britain on Tuesday announced a public inquiry to identify those responsible for the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who accused the Kremlin from his London deathbed of poisoning him with radioactive tea.
In the Media
by Robin Millard (AFP)
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Washington -
The health care affiliate of a top U.S. medical school is to pay $190 million to patients of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and videotaped them, lawyers said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Washington -
The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks, a human rights group said in a report published Monday.
In the Media
by Chantal Valery (AFP)
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Taipei -
Taiwanese prosecutors on Monday said they were seeking the death penalty for a man accused of killing four people and wounding nearly two dozen others in a stabbing spree on the Taipei subway that shocked the island.
In the Media
by AFP
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Addis Ababa -
Complaining of bullying in the international justice arena, African leaders are forging ahead with plans to set up their own regional court -- and give themselves immunity in the process.
In the Media
by Jenny Vaughan (AFP) - 1 comment
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Colombo -
A Sri Lankan ruling party politician and three accomplices were Friday sentenced to 20 years in jai for murdering a British holidaymaker on Christmas Eve and raping his Russian partner.
In the Media
by AFP
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Colombo -
Sri Lanka announced Thursday an investigation into its military over allegations of rights abuses, following intense international pressure for a war-crimes probe into the island's decades-long ethnic conflict.
In the Media
by Amal Jayasinghe (AFP)
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Los Angeles -
A federal US judge ruled that the death penalty in California is unconstitutional, mainly because of the dysfunctional system which administers it.Opponents of capital punishment hailed the ruling by judge Cormac Carney as a landmark decision.
In the Media
by AFP
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Pretoria -
The most notorious assassin of South Africa's apartheid regime, a police colonel known as "Prime Evil", was refused parole Thursday after serving 20 years in prison.
In the Media
by Stephanie Findlay (AFP)
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African leaders have banded together to vote in favor of immunity to war crimes for their administrations. If this goes through they would have a free license to commit atrocities in many areas.
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Madrid -
Spanish King Felipe VI's sister Cristina appealed on Wednesday against tax and money-laundering charges that threaten to land her in an unprecedented criminal trial.
In the Media
by Ingrid Bazinet (AFP)
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Santiago -
Chilean authorities have created a bank of DNA data to help investigate suspected illegal adoptions under the regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet, in power 1973 to 1990.
In the Media
by AFP
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Washington -
Family-owned private companies can deny birth control coverage in their employee health care plans, the US Supreme Court said Monday in a ruling seen by some as a victory for religious freedom.
In the Media
by Robert MacPherson, Chantal Valery (AFP)
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Buenos Aires -
An Argentine judge filed corruption charges against Vice President Amado Boudou over his alleged role while he was finance minister in buying a company that printed local currency.
In the Media
by AFP
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Montreal -
Canada's Supreme Court recognized native groups' rights over a large swathe of land for the first time Thursday in western British Columbia province.
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Madrid -
A Spanish judge ruled Wednesday that King Felipe's sister, Princess Cristina, and her husband should face fraud charges, opening the way to an unprecedented criminal trial.
In the Media
by Sylvie Groult (AFP)
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Madrid -
Spain's Princess Cristina, a sister of the new King Felipe VI, will discover Wednesday whether she faces the threat of an unprecedented criminal corruption trial.
In the Media
by Sylvie GROULT (AFP)
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Bogot -
Sexual violence now may be prosecuted as a crime against humanity in Colombia, where President Juan Manuel Santos signed a law to stem assaults against women during the ongoing civil war.
In the Media
by AFP
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Rome -
A mafia boss turned informant has accused judges in Naples of having accepted bribes to acquit him of murders he has confessed to carrying out, Italian media said Thursday."There was a whole system set up in the court in Naples.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bucharest -
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday denied involvement in a corruption case after a film emerged of his brother apparently admitting to taking a bribe to intervene in a mobster's murder trial.
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has formally applied to serve the rest of his jail term for war crimes in Rwanda, saying his imprisonment in Britain breaches his human rights, his lawyer said Thursday.
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by AFP
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London -
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says his imprisonment in Britain breaches his human rights and has applied to serve the rest of his jail term for war crimes in Rwanda, his lawyer said Thursday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Starke -
Florida put to death a convicted double killer, the third execution in 24 hours in the United States, amid a raging controversy over lethal injection methods.
In the Media
by AFP
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Beijing -
When China put 13 people to death in one day for terrorism offences in mainly Muslim Xinjiang, it raised the spectre of the mass executions of years past. But experts say Beijing's "strike hard" campaign is unlikely to curb mounting violence.
In the Media
by Felicia Sonmez (AFP)
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Hong Kong -
A Hong Kong woman accused of torturing her Indonesian maid in a case that sparked international concern on Tuesday denied all the charges against her.
In the Media
by AFP
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Madrid -
Spanish police on Sunday arrested a member of the armed Basque separatist group ETA suspected of belonging to a unit that killed several police officers in the 1980s, the interior ministry said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Justice Image
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Justice Antonin Scalia
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Scales of Justice
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The often debated concept of blind justice is represented figuratively on the Mississippi State Capitol building.
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Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Young's mother places a ribbon on the memorial plaque.
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Sheriff court in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Memorial vigil for Kyle Young.
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Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Rob Wells, a concerned citizen who took a personal interest in the situation.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Young's sister Amanda Grift.
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US Scales of Justice
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The Palace of Justice in Lima, Peru where Van der Sloot was charged with murder.
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Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Organizer Jim Gurnett.
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Photo courtesy of Jobs With Justice, San Francisco Chapter
California State Assemblymen and former San Francisco City Supervisor, Tom Ammiano was a prominent figure at the Jobs With Justice protest rally at City Hall, Dec. 14, 2010.
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The federal courtroom of the Supreme Court of Canada
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Memorial vigil for Kyle Young.
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Iftikhar Chaudhry - Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court
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