No bail for Taylor's son in torture case
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A federal judge denied bail Friday for former Liberian President Charles Taylor's son, who was indicted last week on torture charges stemming from his time as head of a security force in his father's government.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted his war crimes trial again Monday, drawing an accusation from a prosecutor that he was manipulating the process from his jail cell.
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Lawyers for Margaret Thatcher&#39;s son Mark are taking steps to prevent him answering questions under oath about his alleged involvement in a failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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Jamil el-Banna has been locked up by the United States for nearly five years without being charged &#151; arrested in Africa, allegedly tortured at a CIA "black site" in Afghanistan, then held at Guantanamo Bay &#151; all because of faulty British intelligence, his defenders charge.
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Charles Taylor is charged with war crimes but he won't show up in court to face them
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Thursday to 11 months in prison for passport fraud, a day after being indicted on separate torture charges.
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Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his trial in The Hague for war crimes in Sierra Leone on Monday, saying he had lost faith in the U.N.-backed court and upstaging the proceedings.
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A prominent Cuban doctor who was denied permission to travel to Buenos Aires to visit relatives was staying at the Argentine Embassy on Thursday, but her son said she does not plan to seek asylum in a case that has raised tensions between the two nations.
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was charged in the United States on Wednesday with committing torture in Liberia, the Justice Department's first case under a 12-year-old anti-torture law.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his war crimes trial, calling it a "charade" in a letter read by his attorney, Karim Ahmad Khan. In the same letter, Taylor also dismissed Khan from the case and asked to represent himself.
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BERLIN  - German prosecutors said Thursday they won't investigate Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or other U.S. officials in response to a criminal complaint filed by a group of American lawyers over torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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CAPE TOWN --The family of Mark Thatcher, who was arrested in South Africa last week on suspicion of financing a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, left his Cape Town home. The 51-year-old son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain is effectively under house arrest until he pays a $300,000 bond. Thatcher has denied involvement in the plot. His ...
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KABUL - A bounty hunter accused of running a private torture chamber has gone on trial in Kabul claiming he could not get a fair hearing because the FBI had confiscated vital evidence and locked it in the American Embassy.
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Alan Parastayev's family says he was beaten and then refused urgent medical treatment in prison. But there is nothing they can do about it because the state holding him in jail does not officially exist.
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A judge denied bond Monday for a man accused of abducting and assaulting a 14-year-old girl and holding her in an underground bunker for more than a week before she was able to send a text message to her mother.
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The state appeals court Thursday declined to allow a new trial for a father convicted of beating a man to death at their sons' hockey practice.
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The attorney general nominee declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture.