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Boris Kuznetsov, a lawyer who challenged the Russian security services' wiretapping of his client, has applied for political asylum in the United States, his Moscow attorney said Tuesday.
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Lawyers for the British hacker who claims to have looked around NASA and military computers for evidence of UFOs and aliens have begun an appeal in London High Court to block their client's extradition to the U.S.
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Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski  will ask England's highest court this week to allow him to sue  for libel while avoiding the risk of being extradited to the  United States for child sex offences.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 10 -- Russian authorities have refused to renew the visa of an American labor activist working with a dockworkers union in Kaliningrad, the latest in a series of visa denials targeting Western trade unionists, business people, journalists and lawyers whose activities attracted the...
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Embattled Russian oil giant Yukos has filed for bankruptcy protection in a US court in an attempt to prevent the forced sale of its main production arm.
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Cleared for release after four years, lawyers demand London man be able to join family in UK.
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MOSCOW, July 23 -- A British legal request for the extradition of murder suspect Andrei Lugovoy was based on a flawed, politicized investigation, a senior Russian prosecutor said Monday.
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Attorneys for a group of Chinese Muslims held for nearly five years in the U.S. military prison at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed suit yesterday, asking that the men be released immediately and alleging that they have been held as part of a political deal between the United States and China.
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One of America's most wanted fugitives, accused of raping his daughter and posting the video on the Internet, has contested a U.S. extradition request, his lawyer said on Thursday after a court appearance in Hong Kong.
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A US criminal defense lawyer was part of a plot to help her militant Muslim client smuggle messages out of prison calling for a return to violence in Egypt and the killing
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Over the years Russia&#39;s embattled oil company Yukos has morphed into a respected corporate citizen of the world and is seeking bankruptcy protection in the United States on the
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The lawyer for an American citizen jailed without charges for more than a year in Saudi Arabia says he should be set free &#151; or brought home to stand trial if the United States believes it can make a terrorism case against him.
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A formal request is made to Moscow for the extradition of an ex-KGB agent accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, the Foreign Office confirms.
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LONDON -- Before Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent fatally poisoned in London last year, sought asylum in Britain, he first tried to flee to the United States, according to a new book that also offers fresh details of his uneasy life and relationship with the former KGB ...
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Deutsche Bank wants a US Bankruptcy Court in Houston to dismiss the filing of Russian oil giant Yukos for lack of jurisdiction, contending the company has no American presence beyond
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A prominent Cuban doctor who was denied permission to travel to Buenos Aires to visit relatives entered the Argentine Embassy and reportedly planned to seek political asylum in a case that has caused tension between the two nations.
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Lawyers for imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner were briefly detained at a Moscow airport Sunday, a day before new charges were expected to be filed against their clients, one of the attorneys said.