Haiti ex-rebel head cleared of murder
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group accused of killing thousands, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday acquitted most of 70 suspected mercenaries charged with weapons offences in an alleged plot to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea but found their leader, Simon Mann, guilty.
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Former Mayor Marion Barry was acquitted Wednesday of drunken driving and other offenses stemming from his arrest last year near the White House.
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A Northern Ireland judge clears the only man tried over the murders of 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing.
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A former Rwandan army chief was found guilty Wednesday of the 1994 killings of 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers protecting the then Rwandan prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
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Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was released from jail Thursday, more than two years after his arrest on charges of orchestrating the killing of political opponents at the start of a rebellion that engulfed the country.
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A senior member of the Department for Constitutional Affairs is cleared of allegations he raped a civil servant
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Britain's most senior policeman has been cleared of any misconduct over his handling of events after an innocent Brazilian man was killed by police who mistook him for a suicide bomber, a newspaper said.
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An Iraqi-born American citizen was acquitted Friday of being an informant for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but was convicted of immigration violations.
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The officer who shot one of two brothers arrested during an anti-terrorism raid on an innocent Muslim family's house in London was cleared of any wrongdoing by a police watchdog.
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A former Louisville police detective was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and reckless homicide Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a teenage drug suspect that stoked racial tensions in the city.
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A leader of a banned Kenyan sect is freed by a judge, days after gruesome killings were blamed on the group.
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Conrad Black, the former head of a newspaper empire, was convicted today of mail fraud and obstruction of justice but acquitted of several other counts.
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The man accused of harbouring two men convicted of involvement in the Bali nightclub bombings has been acquitted by Indonesia&#39;s Supreme Court.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a former rebel leader and presidential candidate with alleged ties to drug traffickers, Haitian radio reported.
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BERLIN, Aug 23  - An alleged lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal, legendary international terrorist mastermind through two decades, was acquitted here Monday of murder and bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Bosnia&#39;s war crimes court on Wednesday  acquitted Momcilo Mandic, the most senior ethnic Serb official  to have been indicted by Bosnian authorities, of all charges  related to crimes during the 1992-95 war.