Swedish Pastor Acquitted of Hate Speech
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An appeals court Friday overturned the hate crimes conviction of a Swedish pastor who in a sermon had branded homosexuals a "cancer."
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Zimbabwe&#39;s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted on Friday of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and seize power, in a verdict that provides a major boost for the opposition.
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A Muslim preacher who defended wife-beating is deported from France for a second time.
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A Church of Ireland clergyman from Fermanagh is found guilty of possessing indecent images of children.
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A medical student convicted in a 1999 murder with neo-Nazi links has been expelled from Sweden's leading medical school in a case that sparked debate over whether a killer can become a doctor after having paid his debt to society.
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Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical former preacher at London's Finsbury Park mosque, has lost an appeal against his conviction for inciting racial hatred and soliciting murder.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group blamed for killing some 3,000 people, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked the Reverend Irene Elizabeth Stroud for violating the denomination&#39;s ban on actively gay clergy.
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PRETORIA -- A judge yesterday acquitted Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason charges in a Harare courtroom, surprising even the defendant, who expected a conviction orchestrated by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
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Sweden's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the man convicted of murdering Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his sentence in prison rather than in psychiatric care, reversing a contentious decision by a lower court.
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ISTANBUL, Sept. 21 -- A leading Turkish author was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touches on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
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A protester who went on trial to air his grievances in a planning row is cleared of causing Â£30,000 damage.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been acquitted of attempting to bribe a judge after a marathon court case that&#39;s divided the nation.
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Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is cleared of trying to pervert the course of justice.
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A website designer was found guilty Thursday of inciting murder during a protest by Muslims angered by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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The U.N.'s International Criminal  Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday acquitted former  Rwandan education minister Andre Rwamakuba of murder and  incitement charges related to the country's 1994 genocide.
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An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor found guilty of genocide is released after serving his sentence.