Lawyer: American held illegally in Nicaragua
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An American man convicted of killing his former girlfriend is being held in jail illegally after a judge failed to show up for an afternoon meeting to release him, Eric Volz's lawyer said.
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A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, wrongly detained in connection with the investigation of March&#39;s deadly train bombings in Madrid, Spain, filed suit Monday against the Justice Department and FBI.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Attorneys for a US-based security company accused of setting up sham companies in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in Iraq are contending in court that the company cannot be sued under a key federal anticorruption law because the allegedly stolen money belonged to Iraqis, not Americans.
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WASHINGTON -- A US citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and is being held as an enemy combatant remains in US custody Thursday.
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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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Nicaraguan prosecutors on Wednesday filed an appeal to the country's Supreme Court to overturn the acquittal of a U.S. man on charges of killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend, blocking efforts to win his release.
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An Iraqi who fled repression under Saddam Hussein only to be wrongly arrested as an illegal immigrant by US police has received a rare official apology and compensation, the American Civil Liberties Union said.
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Colombia extradited a top leftist rebel to the United States on Friday to face drug and terror charges, an unprecedented move that followed his group's refusal to free dozens of hostages, including three Americans and a German.
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Former Secretary General of the Organization of American States and former President of Costa Rica Miguel Angel Rodriguez, center in grey suit, is detained by Costa Rican Judicial Police upon his arrival at the Juan Santamaria International Airport
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An American citizen has been extradited to the United States from Great Britain, charged with providing material support to al Qaeda, a federal prosecutor said.
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An alleged kidnapper featured on "America's Most Wanted" turned himself in to U.S. authorities and was deported to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Friday.
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Authorities on Saturday released a lawyer who was on a U.S. list of activists detained this year by Vietnam, two days before President Nguyen Minh Triet goes to the United States on a state visit.
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An American-Iranian academic, detained in Iran on spying charges, has been held in solitary confinement for 40 days, Nobel Peace prize winner and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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By SAMUEL MAULL  NEW YORK - Immigration officials have issued a warrant to detain Yoko Ono's driver, jailed on $250,000 bail on charges of trying to blackmail her for $2 million, while they decide whether the Turkish native is in this country legally.
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An American citizen specializing in the Internet was arrested by the Belarus KGB for allegedly mishandling funds, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday citing the country s authorities.
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US citizen Illya Mafter is arrested in Belarus on fraud charges.
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The wife of an American contractor accused of cheating the U.S. government in Iraq has been detained in Germany on suspicion of money laundering, a prosecutor said Monday.