Mexican judge orders ex-gov's release
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A Mexican judge has ordered the release of a former state governor wanted in the United States on drug trafficking charges, ruling that a money laundering sentence has been satisfied by time already served.
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A judge ordered authorities Thursday to release an immigrant from Sierra Leone who has been jailed for nearly a year while fighting accusations of involvement in the killing of counter-revolutionaries, charges another judge ruled were unfounded.
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A court in Costa Rica orders former president Rafael Angel Calderon be held ahead of his trial on corruption charges.
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An immigration judge Wednesday ordered the deportation of a Turkish immigrant who the government accuses of terrorism, a court spokesman said.
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BOGOT -- Retired General Augusto Pinochet was indicted and ordered placed under house arrest yesterday by a top Chilean judge on charges connected with the murder and kidnapping of political dissidents in four countries. The ruling is the latest twist in a prolonged legal battle that has spanned two continents over whether the former military dictator should be judged for ...
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A Spanish judge ordered six people held in jail on provisional charges of belonging to a terrorist group, while freeing six others, the National Court said Friday.
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Bolivia's top court has asked the government to start extradition proceedings against a former president who lives in self-exile in the United States, the attorney general said on Tuesday.
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The former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, was put back under house arrest yesterday, a day after a Chilean prosecutor recommended his extradition to face charges of rights abuses and corruption. A judge ordered Fujimori's detention in a response to a request from Peru.
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A former Guatemalan dictator said a Spanish judge&#039;s order for his arrest was unfounded and insisted that as president he was not aware of any atrocities committed by military officials during the country&#039;s civil war.
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A judge investigating Gen. Augusto Pinochet's secret multi-million dollar bank accounts in the United States has ordered the assets of the former dictator frozen, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.
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His extradition sets a legal precedent that could be applied to Bolivia's ex-leader, now living in the US.
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A Brazilian judge orders the arrest of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky over allegations of football money-laundering.
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A German court on Monday ordered the release of Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a former member of the Red Army Faction who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s.Comment
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A judge on Wednesday reduced the time former President Rafael Angel Calderon must spend in jail while being investigated on corruption charges.
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A Colombian judge has ordered the seizure of dozens of properties, businesses, bank accounts and vehicles allegedly belonging to the jailed founders of the once-mighty Cali drug cartel, officials said Tuesday.
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A U.S. judge in El Paso on Wednesday dismissed demands that U.S. immigration authorities release an anti-Fidel Castro militant accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Defense to release documents containing the identities of some detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were released or who suffered mistreatment by their handlers or other detainees.