Jailed Libyan wins right to new Lockerbie appeal
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Scotland's High Court must hear a new appeal by Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, an independent review board said on Thursday.
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Kuwait's highest court of appeal overturned the conviction of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner on Tuesday, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.
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The top US Court agrees to hear an appeal by Guantanamo inmates who want to challenge their confinement.
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US president George Bush has paved the way for families of the Lockerbie bomb victims to receive compensation from Libya by lifting sanctions on the country.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s spokesman on Thursday denied news reports that a Libyan man jailed for blowing up a US-bound passenger jet over Scotland would finish his sentence in Libya.
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A judicial review body ruled today that a former Libyan intelligence official jailed for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing is entitled to challenge the verdict against him.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's office denied reports Thursday that Britain had struck a deal to allow the Lockerbie bomber to complete his prison sentence in Libya, but acknowledged that authorities were considering a second appeal from the convicted attacker.
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A federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday that a U.S. citizen in U.S. military custody in Iraq has the right to challenge his detention in a federal court.
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Barry George, killer of TV presenter Jill Dando, has won the right to a new appeal, the BBC understands.
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Libya's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus.
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a two-year prison term for one of Algeria's best known journalists in a case seen by many as a pretext to crush press freedom in this North African country.
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A Libyan intelligence agent will learn this week if he can appeal against his conviction for blowing a Pan Am airliner out of the sky over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988.
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Libya's Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday death sentences on six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV, but the judgment could clear the way for the government to free them.
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The case of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Britain's biggest terrorist outrage that killed 270 people, could be reopened as it emerged that his conviction was based on unreliable evidence.
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The only man jailed over the Omagh bombing faces a retrial after winning his appeal against the conviction.
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An appeals court yesterday upheld the indictment and house arrest of General Augusto Pinochet on murder and kidnapping charges during
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The lawyer of an Islamist militant   sentenced to hang in Pakistan for his role in the murder of   U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Tuesday he would use   President Pervez Musharraf's memoir to support an appeal.