Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday denied that Iran had broken nuclear development regulations in respect to a newly-disclosed nuclear facility, insisting that the applicable disclosure rules only require notice six months before nuclear material...
Search Results for: 2003-07-25
India court sentences Mumbai bombers to death for 2003 attacks
A specially-mandated Indian court on Thursday sentenced three convicted terrorists to death for their roles in the 2003 Mumbai bomb attack that killed 52 people. Late last month, Ashrat Ansari, Hanif Sayed, and Fehmida Sayed...
A special Indian terrorism court on Monday found Ashrat Ansari, Hanif Sayed Anees, and Fehmida Sayed guilty of planning and carrying out a 2003 bomb attack in Mumbai that killed 52 people. They were convicted ...
Supreme Court rules delayed voluntary confessions may be suppressed
The US Supreme Court issued two opinions Monday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Corley v. United States that federal statutory and case...
First Iraqi insurgent tried in US federal court pleads guilty to conspiracy charges
Iraqi-born Dutch citizen Wesam al Delaema pleaded guilty Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to a charge of conspiracy to murder US nationals outside the United States . Al...
Supreme Court decides gun possession, First Amendment, tribal lands cases
The US Supreme Court decided three cases Tuesday. The Court ruled 7-2 in United States v. Hayes that a federal gun law that prohibits...
Thailand prosecutors ask court to seize assets of ex-PM Thaksin and wife
Prosecutors in Thailand have asked the nation's Supreme Court to seize over $2 billion from the frozen accounts and holdings of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojamarn Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST...
Texas death penalty out of step with public attitudes in post-Baze America
Bryan McCann : "When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Baze v. Rees case that Kentucky's lethal injection protocol did not constitute cruel and unusual...
US military court-martialing civilian contractor Ali while DOJ slumbers
Kevin Lanigan : "The U.S. military in Iraq is quickly moving toward its first court-martial of a civilian contractor since the Vietnam war. The case holds some promise of beginning to reign in...
Hollinger Inc. , the Canadian holding company with an interest in former newspaper publisher Hollinger International , has agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $21.3 million to settle claims ...