Suu Kyi Trial Adjourned for a Week

The fate of Nobel peace prize winner peace and democracy activist Aang Sang Suu Kyi of Myanmar is in the hands of the junta.The latest development from the myanmar suggests that the ongoing trial ahs been postponed citing the reasons of administrative error.UN chief is on...

Rape Case More Difficult For the Accused

" The mere filing of a Rape Case against an individual especially a prominent personality is in essence the easiest way to ruin one's reputation. Though presumed innocent until proved otherwise, most accused...

Simon Everitt's killers found guilty in Severance re-enactment

Simon Everitt was only 17 when three people tied him to a tree, poured gas down his throat, and set him on fire, all in a re-enactment of a horrr movie scene from 'Severance'. Today, the three people responsible were found guilty and awaiting sentencing. Maria Chandler, 40,...

Yukos case: Robert Amsterdam's failed strategy

As the trial of fallen oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky begins anew in Russia, one name in particular keeps on surfacing again and again in its media coverage: Robert Amsterdam. Yet Amsterdam is not, contrary to what is often relayed in the media, Khodorkovsky’s lead lawyer in...

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi on trial

Junta seems to have have forgot the power of listining, whole world is crying that Suu Kyi is innocent and the latest charge is not genuine to put her behind the bars, but Junta started the trial and trying to extend the detention period for another one year.Next year Junta...

Burma's Suu Kyi 'to face trial', shifted to prison

Junta is not not ready to show any mercy on pro-democracy leader  Aung San Su Kyi but leaves no opportunity to punish her.  Latest incident of Junta's harsh action is all about an US man visit and charges of...

Are the Days of free speech on count down?

By, Uwe Paschen.  Are the Days of free speech on the Internet on count down?  The 'Minerva' case has sent shockwaves through South Korea's blogging community as well as elsewhere is South East Asia.  This is...

Rabbis urge U.S. government to deport ailing war crime suspect

Los Angeles --- Founders of a Jewish human rights agency urged the United States government to expedite the deportation of their most-wanted Nazi war criminal during a press conference at the Museum of Tolerance on...

The kidnap, torture and murder of French Jew: trial begins today

The trial began today of a gang who are accused of the kidnap, torture, and murder of a French Jewish man, a mobile phone salesman who was tortured over three weeks. It is believed that the gang thought 'all Jews...

LIC subway rape victim files suit against MTA

A Queens judge has thrown out a suit against the MTA and two of its employees filed by a woman who was raped on the platform of the G train's 21st Street stop and accused onlooking transit workers of not doing...

Human Rights Activists to work on Roxana Saberi Case

Iranian human-rights activist and lawyer Shirin Ebadi has now joined Roxana Saberi's legal team, at the request of her family.  Ebadi is the the founder of  Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. ...

Property Rights Not Guaranteed In Canada : A Real Courtroom Drama

Seated across from me next to the Judge at the Settlement Conference table were the three lawyers for the City, GVRD, and the Sewage Authority. They eyed me like sharks circling their bait. “All right...

Stanislav Belkovsky: How Berezovsky's handy-man shot Khodorkovsky

In 2003, Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was indicted for fraud by the Russian government and his oil empire Yukos accused of significant tax evasion. Both were put on trial and destroyed. Beneath official accusations of corruption and tax evasion, Khodorkovsky was...

Journalist Roxana Saberi in Iran Spy Trial

Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has gone on trial in Iran accused of spying for the US.  " "The first trial meeting on Roxana Saberi was held yesterday [Monday]," judiciary spokesman Ali Jamshidi...

Yukos case: Robert Amsterdam, a "soviet style" propagandist

 In 2003, Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was indicted for fraud by the Russian government and his oil empire Yukos accused of significant tax evasion. Both were put on trial and destroyed. Beneath official accusations of corruption and tax evasion, Khodorkovsky...

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