By Reuters A prominent Thai human rights lawyer faces a prison term of up to 150 years if convicted on 10 counts of royal defamation under Thailand’s harsh royal insult law, the legal watchdog Thai […]
Lawyers acting for eight families of victims of the Birmingham pub bombings say they have been offered legal aid funding. The government had previously intervened to remove legal barriers that had barred the Northern Ireland-based […]
By Kirk Mitchell | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post A Denver civil rights attorney who has handled several death penalty cases across the country has been appointed to defend a man who faces the death […]
A Russian court has upheld the five-year suspended sentence handed out to opposition activist Alexei Navalny. A retrial was held after an earlier conviction was overturned following a European Court of Human Rights ruling. Mr […]
A former Detroit Public Schools official was sentenced to prison after earlier pleading guilty to receiving $2.3 million in kickbacks while steering $23 million in no-bid city of Chicago contracts to education firms. A federal […]
By Tom Powell A weapons-obsessed student is facing years behind bars after being found guilty of planting a home-made bomb on a busy Jubilee line train. Former altar boy Damon Smith built the device at […]
There were ugly scenes in the dock at the Old Bailey as two youngsters were found guilty of murdering Andre Aderemi, with one of the convicted murderers lunging at the other. Rodney Mukasa, 20, and […]
NEW ORLEANS — A south Mississippi funeral home went back on an agreement to cremate an 86-year-old man after he died and paperwork showed he was gay, according to a lawsuit in state court. Picayune […]
A Texas police department has changed a key detail in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, amid mounting calls for the officer to be arrested. Jordan Edwards, 15, died after an officer fired a […]
A key player in one of the world’s most successful drug cartels has been arrested by security forces in Mexico City. Damaso Lopez, the right-hand man of jailed drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, was […]
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