Mexican Court Clears Ex-Leader In '68 Massacre
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MEXICO CITY, July 12 -- A Mexican court ruled Thursday that a 1968 student massacre was genocide because government officials plotted to "exterminate" demonstrators, but the court cleared former president Luis EcheverrÃÂ­a of involvement.
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BERLIN -- A court paroled a one time leader of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction yesterday after 24 years in prison, amid bitter memories of the left-wing terrorist group's attacks on law enforcement and business leaders, which plunged the country into fear three decades ago.
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A federal court cleared the way for TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman to be extradited to face charges in Mexico, court officials said Thursday.
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A brother and sister who were separated in 1975 during the Mexican government's crackdown on leftist activists have been reunited after 30 years, authorities announced Tuesday.
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has upheld the conviction of an American woman imprisoned in Peru for terrorist collaboration with Marxist guerrillas, President Alejandro Toledo confirmed Thursday.
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A German court acquitted the suspected right-hand man of international guerrilla "Carlos the Jackal" Monday of charges that he took part in deadly bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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The Vilnius District Court has acquitted former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, the court's spokeswoman Lina Vysniauskene told Interfax following the judgement.
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A federal court judge ruled Tuesday that a presidential pardon of a former junta leader was unconstitutional, the state news agency Telam said.
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A federal court cleared the way for TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman to be extradited to face charges in Mexico, but the decision can still be appealed.
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Argentina's Supreme Court revokes a pardon granted to a former general accused of human rights abuses.
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Chile's Supreme Court yesterday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution, paving the way for possible trials of the 88-year-old general on charges of human rights abuses during his 17-year rule.
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A Wisconsin man who had been sought as a potential witness in the shooting deaths of two camp counselors has been cleared by authorities after he made himself available to investigators.
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A Guatemalan ex-dictator and seven other former officials avoided extradition to Spain to face charges for genocide committed in the country's 36-year civil war, according to a court ruling made public on Monday.
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An Italian military court on Monday acquitted an 87-year-old former lieutenant in the German army of charges stemming from the 1944 World War II massacre of 48 civilians in a small town in Tuscany, Italian news agencies reported.
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The Supreme Court in Chile has ruled that the former dictator General Pinochet should have his immunity from prosecution removed. A lawsuit was brought by relatives of alleged victims of the military regime Operation Condor.
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Latin America's top human rights court upholds the conviction of US citizen Lori Berenson in Peru.
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SANTIAGO: Augusto Pinochet will stand trial for atrocities committed during his 17-year regime in Chile, a Santiago court has ruled unanimously as the 89-year-old former dictator recovers in hospital from a stroke.