Lawyers for alleged US vigilantes appeal to embassy
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Lawyers for three Americans charged with torturing suspects in a private jail during a freelance hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan appealed Wednesday to the US ambassador to help stop their trial.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday began offering tens of thousands of dollars in payments to the victims of the Sept. 16 shootings in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide security guards, according to relatives and U.S. officials.
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free two US citizens and a Briton kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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A US State Department official calls for action to find those responsible for a wave of terror in Bangladesh.
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Nine foreign terror suspects who have been held in British prisons without charge for nearly three years began an appeal for their release in a direct challenge to the Government&#39;s emergency anti-terrorism legislation.
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MOSCOW  - Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defence witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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The State Department called on authorities in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to reopen the trial of three democratic advocates and to recognize the right of freedom of expression in the conservative kingdom.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador to request the charges be dropped,  lawyers for two of them said Wednesday.
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In a challenge that could make or break upcoming trials by a special military commission, defense lawyers are moving to dismiss terrorism charges against
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The lawyer whom the FBI wrongly accused in the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings was in court Monday to urge a judge to strike down provisions of the USA Patriot Act that helped investigators conduct what he says were unconstitutional searches of his home and office.
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Cambodia seeks help from US law enforcement agencies to protect its ancient temples from looters.
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Lawyer accuses Zimbabwe of criminal conspiracy to deport British mercenary while appeal was pending
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Lawyers today tried to block moves to unveil more of the supposed financial backers of the alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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Lawyers for a Yemeni sheik accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist networks say American officials have canceled visas for four men expected to testify for the defense, according to a published report.
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One of America's most wanted fugitives, accused of raping his daughter and posting the video on the Internet, has contested a U.S. extradition request, his lawyer said on Thursday after a court appearance in Hong Kong.
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FRANKFURT, Germany U-S based human rights lawyers are asking German prosecutors to investigate the U-S attorney general nominee for possible war crimes.
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Lawyers for Panama's former military ruler Manuel Noriega seek to block his possible extradition to France.