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Search Results for: 2001-07-02

Spain court convicts three Basque separatist group members of terrorism

May 21, 2010 04:07:54 PM

The Spanish National Court on Friday convicted three members of the Basque separatist group ETA on charges relating to a 2006 bombing in Madrid. Mattin Sarasola, Igor Portu, and Mikel...

March 5, 2010 11:56:00 AM

French prosecutors on Friday filed preliminary terrorism charges against the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA , along with two other people who are believed to be senior members of the group. A...

March 3, 2010 10:10:00 AM

The Spanish National Court on Tuesday sentenced a former Basque separatist party leader to two years in prison for promoting terrorism. The court found that comments...

February 25, 2010 07:19:00 AM

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on the specifics of enhanced interrogation techniques, according to declassified documents made public by Judicial Watch on...

February 18, 2010 09:17:00 AM

The French Court of Cassation on Wednesday reversed an appellate court decision to overturn the convictions of five former Guantanamo Bay detainees, remanding the case to the lower court. A court spokesperson...

January 13, 2010 09:04:00 AM

Spanish Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska ruled on Tuesday that Basque separatist group ETA had tried three times to assassinate former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001 but had failed. Grande-Marlaska detailed the three assassination attempts...

December 2, 2009 10:33:00 AM

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) named a new head co-prosecutor Wednesday after the September resignation of Canadian Robert Petit. UK lawyer Andrew Cayley, who will serve alongside a Cambodian...

November 18, 2009 10:40:00 AM

Virginia authorities on Tuesday executed a prisoner by electric chair , conducting the country's first execution by electrocution in over a year. Former Army counterintelligence worker Larry Bill Elliott, who was convicted of a 2001 double murder,...

August 17, 2009 03:52:00 PM

Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba was acquitted Monday of charges stealing money from the country's treasury while in office from 1991-2001. Chiluba and two Zambian businessmen, Faustin Kabwe and Aaron Chungu, faced a total of 12 counts...

August 14, 2009 02:05:00 PM

The Supreme Court of Western Australia on Friday ruled that the right to refuse medical treatment includes the informed refusal of nutrition and hydration services, in a landmark decision. Christian Rossiter, a quadriplegic, had repeatedly...

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