Margo MacDonald bids to change Scotish law on aiding suicide

Margo MacDonald, a member of the Scottish parliament, has introduced legislation that would make assisted suicide legal in Scotland. The announcement comes a day after a British high court rejected an English petitioners request to clarify the law on whether it is illegal for...

Plotter's wife convicted

The wife of Hussain Osman has been convicted for failing to tell police about his plan to bomb a tube train If the plot had succeeded, 3 tube trains and a bus would have been destroyed   " The Old Bailey heard Yeshi Girma, 32, of Stockwell, south London,...

Guilty plea in US-China spy case

BBC News Reports"A Chinese woman living as a permanent resident in the US has pleaded guilty to helping to spy for Beijing on US military relations with Taiwan.Yu Xin Kang, 33, confessed to aiding and abetting Chinese spy Tai Shen Kuo, who obtained classified information from...

Ex-Navy soldier sues Rumsfeld for torture

An American former Navy soldier and private contractor imprisioned and tortured in Iraq by the U.S military and falsely accused of "aiding terrorists" warns that our worse fears about Iraq have come true.A year ago, Donald Vance learned what its like to be falsely accused by...

Lawyer gets 28 months jail for aiding terrorism (Reuters)

" By Matthew Verrinder 1 hour, 50 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping a client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison. Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in February 2005 of...

Freed writer tells Iran agency: I was duped by U.S.

"A Canadian-Iranian writer freed after four months in an Iranian jail for allegedly endangering state security was quoted by an Iranian news agency on Thursday as saying he had been duped into aiding U.S. organisations. "I used to write articles about Iran bband the Middle...