Archive for the ‘trial’ Category

Elizabeth Fritzl rejects offer of new identity

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ms Fritzl who spent 24 years incarcerated by her father has said she will just change her surname.

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Radovan Karadzic will defend himself in Hague trial

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, has pledged to conduct his
own defence at the International Criminal Tribunal.

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Osama bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan on trial at Guantanamo Bay

Monday, July 21st, 2008

An alleged former driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden has pleaded not
guilty in the first terror trial at Guantanamo Bay.

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Cambodian prince calls for family’s Khmer Rouge killers to be brought to justice

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

In a whitewashed mansion of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Prince Thomico Sisowath gestured wistfully towards a table covered with black and white photos of his parents from the happy time before they were arrested by the Khmer Rouge.

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US judge rules Guantanamo trial can proceed

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay is due to begin on Monday after a
United States federal judge ruled that civilian courts should let the
military process proceed.

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Khmer Rouge minister seeks bail in crimes against humanity trial

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The former foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge regime faced court in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh yesterday, seeking bail ahead of his trial for crimes against humanity.

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Elisabeth Fritzl not ready to face father in court, warn doctors

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The first hearing of evidence against Josef Fritzl has been delayed by three
weeks because the daughter he kept locked in his cellar for 24 years is not
able to face him yet.

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Simon Mann case: Sir Mark Thatcher is next, warn Equatorial Guinea judges

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Sir Mark Thatcher and British businessman Ely Calil were warned the government
of Equatorial Guinea would not rest until it brought them to trial for their
alleged role in a 2004 coup.

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Britain ‘knew about Simon Mann coup plot’

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The President of Equatorial Guinea has accused Western powers of being
complicit in a plot to overthrow his government, just hours before Simon
Mann appears in court charged with leading the attempted coup.

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September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intimidated defendant, says lawyer

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qa’eda’s third-in-command, was accused by a defence lawyer of bullying a co-defendant into rejecting legal counsel at their trial for murder in relation to the September 11 attacks.

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